Reuters media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Reuters in the centre. We have seen it on 1231 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Reuters biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Reuters in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Reuters left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Reuters in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Reuters reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Reuters are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Very high factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Reuters has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Reuters’s own report linked underneath.
Iranian state media reported hearing five explosions on Qeshm Island, near Bandar Lengeh in Hormozgan province. Some residents reported seeing two aircraft in the sky. No official confirmation of the source has been released.
Reuters reported it asOil rises after report of US strike on Iran's Qeshm Island (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Several First Nations in British Columbia are challenging the federal government's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project of national interest. They argue this designation circumvents the legal duty to consult and accommodate them before project approval.
Reuters reported it asBritish Columbia First Nation files court challenge over Pacific Link oil pipeline consultations (opens Reuters in a new tab)
The United States will exclude South Africa and Rwanda from the Africa-US duty-free trade deal, known as AGOA, from January 1, 2027. The decision follows concerns over trade barriers and governance practices inconsistent with the agreement's criteria.
Reuters reported it asUS to suspend South Africa and Rwanda from duty-free trade access (opens Reuters in a new tab)
President Xi Jinping told Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said that the Middle East should not be a battleground for great-power rivalry. Xi expressed China's willingness to enhance coordination with Arab and GCC countries for regional peace and stability.
Reuters reported it asChina's foreign minister pushes for dialogue to resolve Middle East conflict (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Ryanair is considering significant cost-cutting measures, such as temporarily freezing employee salaries, as rising fuel prices and the impact of the "Iran war" increase operational costs. The airline estimates its oil costs could rise by €2 billion next year.
Reuters reported it asRyanair says it might freeze pay to offset high fuel prices (opens Reuters in a new tab)
French railway manufacturer Alstom has significantly lowered its annual and semi-annual profit forecasts, citing production difficulties with its Coradia Max project for Germany. The company's stock price fell sharply following the announcement, and it plans operational overhauls and debt reduction.
Reuters reported it asAlstom slashes annual margin target, sees €1.5 billion cash burn (opens Reuters in a new tab)
South Korea's 2027 budget proposal includes a significant increase in funding for artificial intelligence and semiconductors. President Lee Jae Myung aims to bolster the nation's technological capabilities with an investment of 21.3 trillion won, nearly double the amount allocated for the previous year.
Reuters reported it asSouth Korea's Lee vows to make bold AI investment ... (opens Reuters in a new tab)
The United States has been pressing since September to resume Russian natural gas exports to Europe through pipelines that cross Ukraine. This initiative is reportedly part of talks aimed at securing a ceasefire over energy facilities, with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff said to have proposed the idea.
Reuters reported it asUS pushes to restore Russian gas sales to Europe via Ukraine, WSJ ... (opens Reuters in a new tab)
The US dollar remained stable against a basket of currencies as investors awaited the outcome of the midterm elections. Bitcoin saw a slight recovery following a significant hack at the Binance exchange, which led to substantial withdrawals.
Reuters reported it asDollar rangebound ahead of US midterms; bitcoin reels ... (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Iran's IRGC Navy stated two oil tankers exploded after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz. One vessel caught fire. The tankers were allegedly using an unauthorized route and had disabled navigation systems, with claims of US military support.
Reuters reported it asIran's IRGC Navy says two tankers 'exploded' after hitting mines in Hormuz (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated he believes a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is nearing completion. He suggested a deal could be finalized at the G20 summit in December, which is scheduled to take place at his resort in Doral, Florida.
Reuters reported it asTrump says US, Canada have 'concept' of a new trade deal (opens Reuters in a new tab)
North Korea has condemned the recent South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise "Iron Mace," calling it a nuclear war rehearsal. Pyongyang stated it will continue to bolster its nuclear deterrence in response to perceived threats from the drills.
Reuters reported it asNorth Korea says US-South Korea nuclear drill shows need for stronger nuclear deterrent (opens Reuters in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
Reuters reported it asUS judge dismisses Trump election lawsuit in Alaska (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Democrats must pick up four seats in both the House and Senate to alter the trade debate, with Senator Ron Wyden urging repeal of Canada tariffs. The Trump administration says it will keep its tariff-driven agenda and rely more on executive actions.
Reuters reported it asDemocratic wins would shift Congress' trade debate but fall ... (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Russian strikes on energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without power on Sunday, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Meanwhile, Russian authorities reported significant damage to an industrial facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region following a Ukrainian drone attack.
Reuters reported it asRussian strikes cut power to thousands in Ukraine as drones damage Russian facility (opens Reuters in a new tab)
US District Judge Ada Brown has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and has been temporarily suspended from her cases. The order follows a judicial misconduct investigation initiated by a complaint from civil rights lawyer Ezra Young.
Reuters reported it asTexas federal judge fails to appear for judicial misconduct investigative hearing (opens Reuters in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that there is growing international interest in a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea to ensure the passage of grain and energy shipments. India and Turkey have put forward proposals to facilitate this, which the US is currently examining.
Reuters reported it asUS, Canada see growing interest in limited ceasefire in Black Sea (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Donald Trump reportedly became angry upon learning his former lawyer, Alina Habba Mildon, secured a $50 million contract with a Venezuelan billionaire family. He suggested she donate a portion of the money to his future presidential library.
Reuters reported it asTrump calls $50 million contract for ex-lawyer Habba Mildon 'not acceptable' (opens Reuters in a new tab)
China's Coast Guard is harassing shipping with patrols off Taiwan's east coast, according to Taiwan's Coast Guard. Taipei says the patrols aim to exert a fictional jurisdiction and has sent its own ships to monitor the situation.
Reuters reported it asTaiwan says China harassing shipping with east coast patrol (opens Reuters in a new tab)
A Yemeni staff member of the UN Human Rights Office, Mohammad el Shami, has died in Houthi custody. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an independent investigation into his death.
Reuters reported it asUN says Yemeni staff member dies in Houthi custody, demands investigation (opens Reuters in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Thomson ReutersCorporationdirect owner
- The Woodbridge CompanyCorporationparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- reuters.com
- Seen publishing on
- reuters.com, rmb.reuters.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 1231
- Reports listed
- 1335
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
1335 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. Reuters is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 1232 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Reuters’s on 187 of them. Overall it filed a median of 11 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 3 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 1 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Reuters, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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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