The Desk media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Desk in the centre. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Desk biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Desk in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Desk left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Desk in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Desk reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Desk are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Desk has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Desk’s own report linked underneath.
RTL Deutschland and Sky plan to eliminate approximately 500 jobs by the end of 2027, following RTL Group's acquisition of Sky Deutschland. The majority of these cuts are anticipated in 2026, as the companies aim to achieve significant annual synergies.
The Desk reported it asRTL to cut 500 jobs following Sky Deutschland merger (opens The Desk in a new tab)
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor and former Bush adviser, is the early frontrunner to replace outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, though multiple sources say the selection process remains open. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met Jennings at a Washington steakhouse, but other names, including Natalie Harp, are also under consideration.
The Desk reported it asTrump: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to depart (opens The Desk in a new tab)
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi, long-time correspondents on CBS's '60 Minutes', have been removed from the programme as part of a restructuring and will take up teaching positions. The move follows a broader shakeup at the network's flagship news show.
The Desk reported it asScott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi get Columbia Journalism School residencies (opens The Desk 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 Desk.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- thedesk.net
- Seen publishing on
- thedesk.net
- 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 Desk 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 Desk: its report arrived a median of 5 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Desk, 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 Desk 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.