The Coal Valley News media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Coal Valley News in the centre. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Coal Valley News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Coal Valley News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Coal Valley News left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Coal Valley News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Coal Valley News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Coal Valley News are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Coal Valley News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Coal Valley News’s own report linked underneath.
West Virginia's Republican attorney general has initiated an investigation into the state's primary environmental groups concerning their climate change advocacy and fundraising practices. The targeted groups have labelled the inquiry a sham and have initiated legal action to quash subpoenas for their financial records.
The Coal Valley News reported it asLawsuit reveals WV AG targeting environmental groups with investigation, subpoenas (opens The Coal Valley News in a new tab)
The US Navy has awarded RTX's Raytheon unit a contract worth up to $24.4 billion to speed up the production of Standard Missile-6 interceptors. The Pentagon stated the deal is intended to replenish missile stockpiles depleted by recent conflicts.
The Coal Valley News reported it asRTX's Raytheon awarded $24.4 billion multi-year contract for SM-6 interceptors (opens The Coal Valley News in a new tab)
A U.S.-backed company, North American Blue Energy Partners, is set to take over oilfields in Venezuela previously operated by Chinese and Russian firms. The deal grants the U.S. government a significant stake and preferential access to production.
The Coal Valley News reported it asUnited States Government and North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) Reach Historic Deal to Develop Venezuela's Oil Sector (opens The Coal Valley News 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.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckcenterCheck 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Coal Valley News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States
- Official site
- coalvalleynews.com
- Seen publishing on
- coalvalleynews.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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
3 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 Coal Valley News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Coal Valley News: its report arrived a median of 30 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 28 October 2026. Ratings pulled 6 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Coal Valley News, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The Coal Valley 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.
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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.