Is The New York Sun biased?
The rating organisations do not give The New York Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Right; Ad Fontes Media: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is The New York Sun biased?
The rating organisations do not give The New York Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Right; Ad Fontes Media: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The New York Sun left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The New York Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Right; Ad Fontes Media: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The New York Sun reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The New York Sun are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
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
- The New York Sun Company, LLCIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- nysun.com
- Seen publishing on
- nysun.com
- Access
- Paywalled
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
- 4 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.
We have not seen The New York Sun cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The New York Sun: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The New York SunRightHigh factualityJack Smith Agrees To Testify About Trump in Bid To Thwart Criminal Charges (opens The New York Sun in a new tab)
New York, New York, United StatesOwner: The New York Sun Company, LLC
Our report: Senate Judiciary Committee invites Jack Smith to testify on Trump investigation
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The New York Sun, 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.
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.