Queen City News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Queen City News in the centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Queen City News biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Queen City News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Queen City News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Queen City News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Queen City News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Queen City News are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Queen City News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Queen City News’s own report linked underneath.
Early voting turnout is up significantly in many states that could determine control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis. This surge is particularly notable in battleground states where Democrats are seeking to flip Republican-held seats.
Queen City News reported it asOn the Record: Elections and early voting (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
Queen City News reported it asOn the Record: Elections and early voting (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Hassan Kariem, a teacher at Wesley International Academy, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Police stated he was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling. Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar roller coasters.
Queen City News reported it asFury 325, Thunder Striker closed at Carowinds after deadly Georgia incident (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Four juveniles and one adult have been arrested in connection with the homicide of 4-year-old Caleb Flax. The shooting involved at least 84 rounds fired into four occupied residences and three unoccupied vehicles. Four teenagers face murder charges.
Queen City News reported it as'It pierced the heart of an entire community': CMPD says more suspects could be arrested in murder of 4-year-old Caleb Flax (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign in North Carolina with Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley. This event marks Trump's first rally since his midterm convention in Dallas, as Republicans hope his presence will energize voters.
Queen City News reported it asTraffic, temporary closures expected across Charlotte as Trump campaigns for Whatley in Gastonia (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
Queen City News reported it asSept. 11 anniversary: Nation remembers 25 years later (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Manolo Betancur, owner of Manolo's Bakery in East Charlotte, confronted former Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino outside his business. Betancur stated that Bovino's previous operation, 'Charlotte's Web,' negatively impacted his bakery, causing financial losses and fear.
Queen City News reported it asBakery owner addresses encounter with Bovino (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
The family of Iryna Zarutska, who was killed on the Charlotte Area Transit system's Blue Line in August 2025, plans to file a civil lawsuit. A state audit revealed safety and security gaps, including a lack of fare enforcement and physical security.
Queen City News reported it asFamily of Iryna Zarutska to file civil lawsuit over alleged light rail safety failures as anniversary of death approaches (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Interim Sen. Darline Graham, appointed after her brother Lindsey Graham’s death, said during a debate that national security is ‘not my thing’. The comment came in response to a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea, and has drawn criticism from her opponent’s supporters ahead of the 25 August runoff.
Queen City News reported it asGraham, Norman tangle in South Carolina GOP Senate debate: Three takeaways (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) announced he will not seek re-election after the House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence of sexual harassment. The committee recommended censure, citing lavish gifts and inappropriate behavior toward two women staffers. Edwards will complete his current term.
Queen City News reported it asRep. Chuck Edwards drops reelection bid after ethics investigation (opens Queen City News in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Ad Fontes MediaveryHighCheck it
Who owns it
- Nexstar Media GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
- Official site
- qcnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- qcnews.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
10 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Queen City News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Queen City News’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 35 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 8 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 31 October 2026. Ratings pulled 10 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Queen City News, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Queen City News publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.