Is The Big Lead biased?
The Big Lead is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is The Big Lead biased?
The Big Lead is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Big Lead left or right?
The Big Lead is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is The Big Lead reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for The Big Lead. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What The Big Lead has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Big Lead’s own report linked underneath.
Matt Calkins resigned from the Seattle Times on 20 August 2026 after the paper declined to publish his column on transgender athletes in women’s sports. Calkins said the decision followed interviews with student-athletes opposing transgender participation in female sports, and that the paper had rejected other proposed columns. The Seattle Times has not commented.
The Big Lead reported it asColumnist resigns after editor spikes column on Sophie Cunningham fans (opens The Big Lead in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed The Big Lead. We asked on 21 August 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Big Lead.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, United States
- Official site
- thebiglead.com
- Seen publishing on
- thebiglead.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 21 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. The Big Lead has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count 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, we logged no report earlier than The Big Lead’s on it. Its report was the first we hold on every one.
Measured 21 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 August 2026. Ratings pulled 21 August 2026.
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