Salt Lake Tribune media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Salt Lake Tribune one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Salt Lake Tribune biased?
The rating organisations do not give Salt Lake Tribune one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; 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 Salt Lake Tribune left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Salt Lake Tribune one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; 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 Salt Lake Tribune reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Salt Lake Tribune are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Salt Lake Tribune has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Salt Lake Tribune’s own report linked underneath.
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to repeal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants. Administrator Lee Zeldin stated the move could save billions for the industry and boost American energy.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asEPA erases limits on climate pollution from power plants (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
Patagonia said on 2 September it will sue the Trump administration as part of a coalition contesting a July presidential order that reduced the size of Bears Ears National Monument. One digest cites a 1.36 million‑acre cut, another cites about three million acres and includes Grand Staircase‑Escalante.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asPatagonia, environmental and tribal groups sue Trump over shrinking Utah national monuments (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
The Trump administration is reportedly pressuring the National Park Service to transfer a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private developer, Kingsbarn Realty Capital. The developer seeks the land to build a road connecting its property to the park, raising conservation concerns.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asTrump wants to give part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom, who declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft identifying as a woman, was wearing a shirt with a definition of 'woman'.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asFormer Utah Jazz player Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from WNBA game after confrontation (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
The US Agriculture Department plans to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, removing logging restrictions on over 40 million acres of national forest. The move, announced by Secretary Brooke Rollins, aims to reduce wildfire risks but is opposed by environmental groups who say it will increase them.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asTrump administration moves to allow logging in pristine national forests (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
A cardiologist who treated Dick Cheney has questioned Donald Trump’s health in a New York Times op-ed, citing bruises, leg swelling and undisclosed medical imaging. The White House dismissed concerns as ‘cherry-picked screenshots’, while a Democratic congressman proposes an independent medical commission under the 25th Amendment.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asI was Dick Cheney’s cardiologist. Trump has not looked well, and we should know why. (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor and former Bush adviser, is the early frontrunner to replace outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, though multiple sources say the selection process remains open. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met Jennings at a Washington steakhouse, but other names, including Natalie Harp, are also under consideration.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asHouse Democrats investigating possible insider trading tied to Trump’s shrinking of Bears Ears National Monument (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, have asked a Utah judge to block the death penalty. They argue the shooting did not endanger other attendees at the Utah Valley University event on 10 September 2025. Prosecutors say DNA links Robinson to the weapon.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asCharlie Kirk shooting: Tyler Robinson asks judge to block death penalty, dismiss charges (opens Salt Lake Tribune in a new tab)
A 24-year-old gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, killing three people before dying by suicide. The victims were named after a community vigil, while no right-rated outlet reported the incident.
Salt Lake Tribune reported it asUtah man among those killed in Idaho In-N-Out mass shooting (opens Salt Lake Tribune 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc.Independentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
- Official site
- sltrib.com
- Seen publishing on
- sltrib.com
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
- 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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
9 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Salt Lake Tribune ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Salt Lake Tribune: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Salt Lake Tribune, 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 Salt Lake Tribune 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.