The Birmingham Times media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places The Birmingham Times as leaning left. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Birmingham Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media places The Birmingham Times as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Birmingham Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places The Birmingham Times as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Birmingham Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Birmingham Times are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Birmingham Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Birmingham Times’s own report linked underneath.
Republican Barry Moore has won the U.S. Senate election for Alabama, defeating Democrat Everett Wess. Moore, a south Alabama congressman, secured the victory with an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
The Birmingham Times reported it asTommy Tuberville Claims Win in Governor Race; Doug Jones Points to Democratic Progress in Alabama (opens The Birmingham Times in a new tab)
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
The Birmingham Times reported it asDemocrats Win the US House, Senate as Voters Deliver a Strong Rebuke to Trump (opens The Birmingham Times in a new tab)
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
The Birmingham Times reported it asDemocrats Win the US House, Senate as Voters Deliver a Strong Rebuke to Trump (opens The Birmingham Times in a new tab)
Alabama voters in four congressional districts cast ballots in special primaries on 11 August 2026 after Governor Kay Ivey postponed the contests following a U.S. Supreme Court decision. The new map, effective in 2027, eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, altering electoral dynamics.
The Birmingham Times reported it asAfter Districts Redrawn, Alabama Special Congressional Primary Brings Out Voters (opens The Birmingham Times in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MedialeanLeftCheck it
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
- Ad Fontes MediahighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Birmingham Times.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- birminghamtimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- birminghamtimes.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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
4 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.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Birmingham Times ran the story anyway.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Birmingham Times: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Birmingham Times, 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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