Statesman Journal media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Statesman Journal in the centre. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Statesman Journal biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Statesman Journal in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Statesman Journal left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Statesman Journal in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Statesman Journal reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Statesman Journal are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Statesman Journal has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Statesman Journal’s own report linked underneath.
Paramount has settled lawsuits brought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America concerning its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlements pave the way for the $81 billion deal to proceed, pending final court approval.
Statesman Journal reported it asOregon, 13 states will allow Paramount-WB merger to go forward (opens Statesman Journal in a new tab)
Oregon has settled a lawsuit with Jessica Bates, a woman denied adoption due to her religious beliefs on same-sex marriage and gender identity. The state will reconsider her application and cannot reject her based on those beliefs, also agreeing to pay her attorneys' fees.
Statesman Journal reported it asOregon mom who rejected LGBTQ rules settles lawsuit, free to adopt (opens Statesman Journal in a new tab)
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
Statesman Journal reported it asApple unveils new foldable iPhone Duo, plus iPhone 18 Pro models (opens Statesman Journal in a new tab)
Apple CEO John Ternus posted a cryptic video ahead of the company's expected iPhone 18 Pro unveiling. The video appears to hint at a new variable aperture camera feature for the device, which is set to be announced alongside new Apple Watch models.
Statesman Journal reported it asApple unveils new foldable iPhone Duo, plus iPhone 18 Pro models (opens Statesman Journal in a new tab)
On 9 September 2026, a coalition of twenty U.S. states and the District of Columbia filed two lawsuits accusing the Trump administration of illegally weakening the Endangered Species Act. The suits target rules that narrow habitat protections and reduce safeguards for newly threatened species.
Statesman Journal reported it asOregon sues Trump administration for weakening wildlife protections (opens Statesman Journal in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
Statesman Journal reported it asWhite House asks for mail-voting limits to go on as Oregon sues (opens Statesman Journal in a new tab)
A federal judge has lifted a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting. The Supreme Court ruled a previous challenge was premature, but states have filed a new lawsuit arguing the USPS rule interferes with election administration.
Statesman Journal reported it asOregon sues over USPS rule limiting mail-in ballots under Trump order (opens Statesman Journal 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.
Statesman Journal reported it asForest Service moves to drop roadless rule. What it means for Oregon (opens Statesman Journal 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
- GannettMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Salem, Marion County, Oregon, United States
- Official site
- statesmanjournal.com
- Seen publishing on
- statesmanjournal.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 19 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Statesman Journal is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Statesman Journal: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 3 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 27 September 2026. Ratings pulled 18 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Statesman Journal, 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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