Reporter.net media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Reporter.net one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Reporter.net biased?
The rating organisations do not give Reporter.net one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Reporter.net left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Reporter.net one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Reporter.net reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Reporter.net are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Reporter.net has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Reporter.net’s own report linked underneath.
Republican Mike Mazzei has won the Oklahoma governor's race, defeating Democrat Cyndi Munson. The victory contributed to a Republican sweep of all statewide offices, though Democrats did manage to flip five seats in the state House.
Reporter.net reported it asOklahoma Voice: Mike Mazzei, with Trump’s backing, continues GOP dominance in Oklahoma governor win (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
Control of 15 state legislative chambers is contested ahead of the November elections, according to a new analysis. Republicans are described as being on the defensive in the current midterm cycle.
Reporter.net reported it asOklahoma Voice: Democrats could flip legislative chambers, break GOP supermajorities, analysis finds (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
Costco and Conoco offered the lowest regular fuel price at $4.78 in Idaho Falls, according to a Stacker report. The list ranks gas stations by price and includes addresses.
Reporter.net reported it asCheapest gas stations in Columbus, Indiana (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
President Trump insisted on attending a campaign rally in Oklahoma despite severe weather that grounded his plane and led his Secret Service detail to consider cancellation. He directed them to drive him to the event.
Reporter.net reported it asPresident Trump begins campaign blitz with stops in Texas, Oklahoma (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
Donald Trump's motorcade traveled by road between Texas and Oklahoma due to bad weather. A press van reportedly reached 98 mph during the journey, with no injuries reported.
Reporter.net reported it asPresident Trump begins campaign blitz with stops in Texas, Oklahoma (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the execution of Christa Gail Pike to proceed in Tennessee, reversing a stay granted by an appeals court. Pike, 50, was scheduled for lethal injection for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.
Reporter.net reported it asEditorial: Missouri should begin debate about executions (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a midterm rally in Durant, Oklahoma, on October 1 at the Choctaw Event Center. This marks his first official visit to the state in six years and will include an appearance with Republican gubernatorial nominee Mike Mazzei.
Reporter.net reported it asOklahoma Voice: Trump set to rally GOP voters, hold midterm election event in Oklahoma (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
Stacker compiled rankings of the hottest Augusts in Missouri and six other U.S. states using federal climate data. The 1936 August in Missouri averaged 83.9°F, the highest since records began in 1895. Outlets across the political spectrum published the findings, with varying emphasis on climate trends.
Reporter.net reported it asHottest Augusts in Indiana since 1895 (opens Reporter.net in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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.
High factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Reporter.net.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- reporter.net
- Seen publishing on
- reporter.net
- Access
- Paywalled
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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
8 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.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Reporter.net ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Reporter.net: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 November 2026. Ratings pulled 8 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Reporter.net, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Reporter.net 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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