Is Tampa Bay Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Tampa Bay Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Tampa Bay Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Tampa Bay Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; 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 Tampa Bay Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Tampa Bay Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Tampa Bay Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Tampa Bay Times are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Tampa Bay Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Tampa Bay Times’s own report linked underneath.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated he has not endorsed and does not support Rep. Cory Mills, who is running for a third term in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. Mills faces a Republican primary on 18 August and an ethics investigation involving allegations of domestic violence.
Tampa Bay Times reported it asDeSantis adds to mounting GOP opposition to embattled Cory Mills (opens Tampa Bay Times 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Times Publishing CompanyIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States
- Official site
- tampabay.com
- Seen publishing on
- tampabay.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 15 August 2026
1 of those reports was 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. Tampa Bay Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Tampa Bay Times: its report arrived a median of 2 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 15 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 August 2026. Ratings pulled 15 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Tampa Bay Times, 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.
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 Tampa Bay Times 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.