The Ada News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Ada News 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 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Ada News biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Ada News 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 The Ada News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Ada News 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 The Ada News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Ada News 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 The Ada News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Ada News’s own report linked underneath.
Cheapest Gas Prices in Missouri
Trust 42Stacker.com used Gas Buddy data to identify the cheapest gas stations in Missouri. Casey's in Sullivan offered the lowest regular fuel price at $3.64, with other stations in Joplin and Springfield also listed.
The Ada News reported it asCheapest gas stations in Oklahoma (opens The Ada News in a new tab)
Record-high diesel prices have prompted Republican Senator Chuck Grassley to call for an embargo on exports. Farm state Republicans are pressuring the White House to stop exports, citing the impact on farmers and truckers.
The Ada News reported it asOKLAHOMA VOICE: Diesel prices shoot upward as top farm-state GOP senator begs Trump for export embargo (opens The Ada News in a new tab)
Two Oklahoma mothers, Sheena Hamlin and Magon Hoffman, filed a lawsuit with the Center for Reproductive Rights alleging that state abortion restrictions compelled them to leave Oklahoma for out‑of‑state abortions costing thousands after their fetuses were diagnosed as non‑viable. State officials have not commented.
The Ada News reported it asOKLAHOMA VOICE: Mothers, reproductive rights group sue Oklahoma officials over abortion ban (opens The Ada News in a new tab)
Democratic-controlled states have filed a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections. The suit targets new U.S. Postal Service rules that require federal approval for mail ballot envelope designs and a list of eligible voters.
The Ada News reported it asOKLAHOMA VOICE: U.S. Supreme Court lifts pause on Trump mail-ballot order (opens The Ada News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump announced $180 million in federal grants for mining schools, including $100 million from the Department of Energy for 14 accredited U.S. institutions. The funding is part of a broader $2 billion investment in the mining sector, framed as a move to rebuild domestic coal production and address workforce shortages.
The Ada News reported it asOKLAHOMA VOICE: Trump announces $180M for mining education as administration recommits to coal (opens The Ada News 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
We hold no ownership record for The Ada News.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- theadanews.com
- Seen publishing on
- theadanews.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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 13 August 2026
5 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. The Ada News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Ada News: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 27 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 27 September 2026. Ratings pulled 12 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Ada News, 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 The Ada News 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.