Sky News UK media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Sky News UK one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. We have seen it on 144 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Sky News UK biased?
The rating organisations do not give Sky News UK one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Sky News UK left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Sky News UK one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Sky News UK reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Sky News UK 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 Sky News UK has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Sky News UK’s own report linked underneath.
A LOT Polish Airlines flight from London to Warsaw made an unscheduled landing at Warsaw-Modlin airport on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, due to a bomb threat. Warsaw-Modlin airport was temporarily closed. An SAS flight from Copenhagen to Warsaw also reported a bomb threat.
Sky News UK reported it asBomb threats reported on multiple flights, including two from UK airports (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
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.
Sky News UK reported it asUS carries out 'limited strikes' on Qeshm Island in Iran (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Research by the British Chambers of Commerce indicates that many businesses continue to face Brexit-related red tape that impedes their growth in Europe. A significant portion of firms surveyed cited customs paperwork and delays as key barriers.
Sky News UK reported it asMajor business group calls for fundamental change in UK-EU relationship (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Jersey Airport experienced flight disruptions on Friday evening due to unauthorised drone activity in restricted airspace. Three inbound flights were diverted, and police conducted searches for drone operators without success.
Sky News UK reported it asFlights disrupted after 'illegal and persistent' drone activity near airport (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
King Charles III participated in a Junkanoo festival parade in Nassau, Bahamas, while protesters called for reparations for the slave trade. He acknowledged the "great suffering of the past" and stated that Commonwealth leaders would discuss slavery's legacy.
Sky News UK reported it asThe King to speak about slavery with 'unflinching honesty' (opens Sky News UK 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.
Sky News UK reported it asUN demands investigation into death of staff member in Houthi custody (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
The United States cancelled a planned group photo at the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Atlanta due to deep rifts among member nations. Several European diplomats objected to standing alongside Russia's top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, leading to the cancellation.
Sky News UK reported it asG20 photocall axed after Miliband and other ministers refuse to be pictured with top Russian diplomat (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
Sky News UK reported it asCrypto industry suffers 'largest bank heist in human history' (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
Sky News UK reported it asStar Trek and X-Men actor Sir Patrick Stewart dies (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea launched an unidentified projectile off its east coast on Thursday. Japan's Coast Guard suggested it could be a ballistic missile, a detail not widely reported.
Sky News UK reported it asNorth Korea fires ballistic missiles off east coast as tensions with South rise (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
A US judge has ordered Donald Trump to produce documents by November 23 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC. The judge warned that failure to comply could result in sanctions, including the dismissal of his case.
Sky News UK reported it asTrump warned $10bn BBC lawsuit could be dismissed over missing documents (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Morris, a US Air Force officer stationed at the embassy in London, left the United Kingdom in August 2026 before British police could question him. He is under investigation for alleged possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material, and his brother is on trial in the US.
Sky News UK reported it asUS Air Force officer accused of possessing child abuse images was flown out of the UK (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
HSBC announced a 32% rise in third-quarter pretax profit to $9.6 billion, alongside a share buyback programme of up to $1 billion. Revenue reached $18.6 billion, slightly below forecasts, while net interest income increased.
Sky News UK reported it asAnother major lender's profits in billions as higher bank tax expected in budget (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Asian stock markets saw a significant rise following Anthropic's initial public offering filing, which disclosed strong revenue growth alongside substantial losses. Meta Platforms' large equity fundraising also contributed to the positive sentiment.
Sky News UK reported it asAnthropic reveals plans for blockbuster IPO (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has secured a fourth term as Brazil's president, defeating right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro challenged the election results, while international leaders congratulated Lula on his victory and commitment to democracy.
Sky News UK reported it asLula re-elected president in Brazil, electoral authority says (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
French protest groups and unions have called for more demonstrations and a nationwide strike following Saturday's rallies. The Interior Ministry reported 410,000 participants, with authorities deploying 70,000 police. While arrests and injuries were lower than the previous week, calls for further action persist.
Sky News UK reported it asFrance protests latest: France protest groups demand more rallies - as unrest spreads across Europe (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called for an open discussion about the UK readopting EU free movement rules. He plans to meet EU leaders on November 20 and wants to explore options for a closer relationship with the bloc.
Sky News UK reported it asPM open to 'honest discussion' about return to EU free movement (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Teddy Young, a 24-year-old Royal Navy sailor, appeared at the Old Bailey facing new charges concerning an alleged breach of classified information. He is accused of abusing his security clearance to access defence data and attempting to contact Russian authorities.
Sky News UK reported it asRoyal Navy sailor accused of plotting to leak information to Russia (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Volvo Cars announced it will eliminate approximately 2,500 jobs worldwide, with about 2,000 of those positions in Sweden. The company cited a third-quarter net loss, attributing it to US tariffs and declining sales in China.
Sky News UK reported it asVolvo Cars in share price crash as 2,500 job cuts follow sales slump (opens Sky News UK in a new tab)
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two men near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. At least five people were injured. Israel's military stated the men carried firearms. Following the incident, Israel ordered its army to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank.
Sky News UK reported it asIsrael orders army to prepare to fully close West Bank after attack (opens Sky News UK 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Sky GroupTelecomdirect owner
- ComcastMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United Kingdom
- Official site
- news.sky.com
- Seen publishing on
- news.sky.com, skynewsus.com, sky-news.co.uk, sky.com
- Access
- Free to read
- 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
- 144
- Reports listed
- 148
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
148 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. Sky News UK is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 144 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Sky News UK’s on 4 of them. Overall it filed a median of 18 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 3 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Sky News UK, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Sky News UK 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.