Is Spectrum News biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Spectrum News in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Spectrum News on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Spectrum News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Seen publishing on
- spectrumnews1.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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
3 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. Spectrum News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Spectrum News’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 6 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Spectrum NewsCentreHigh factualityWisconsin judge rules paper absentee ballots violate rights of disabled people (opens Spectrum News in a new tab)
United StatesOwner: Advance Publications
Our report: Judge finds Wisconsin absentee voting discriminates against disabled voters
- Spectrum NewsCentreHigh factualityFederal appeals court says Trump admin was wrong to terminate climate funds (opens Spectrum News in a new tab)
United States
Our report: US appeals court rules Trump administration wrongly ended $20bn climate fund
- Spectrum NewsCentreHigh factualityCapital One: Trump bank accounts were closed due to money laundering concerns (opens Spectrum News in a new tab)
United States
Our report: Trump sued Capital One after bank closed accounts over money-laundering fears
- Spectrum NewsCentreHigh factualityStates sue Trump administration over federal assistance data sharing (opens Spectrum News in a new tab)
United States
Our report: States sue Trump administration to block access to benefits recipients' data
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.