The Press media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Press in the centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Press biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Press in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Press left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Press in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Press reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Press are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Press has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Press’s own report linked underneath.
The second series of The Celebrity Traitors has an official premiere date of Thursday, October 1, 2026. The show will air weekly on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, featuring a new segment and a cast including Amol Rajan and Bella Ramsey.
The Press reported it asBBC Celebrity Traitors launch date revealed - and there's not long to wait (opens The Press in a new tab)
The BRICS New Delhi Declaration condemned the April 22, 2025, terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The statement called for zero tolerance towards state-sponsored cross-border terrorism and reaffirmed the commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms.
The Press reported it asBrics leaders voice concern over Middle East and condemn unilateral sanctions (opens The Press in a new tab)
Chancellor John Healey is set to announce a £150 million fund aimed at supporting fast-growing firms in the North of England. The initiative, drawn from the British Business Bank's existing budget, is intended to foster economic growth and support ambitious businesses, including university spin-outs.
The Press reported it asYork businesses could benefit from proposed £150m Northern investment fund (opens The Press in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
The Press reported it asBrits warned to avoid all travel to parts of Indonesia as volcano erupts (opens The Press in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
The Press reported it asBrits warned to avoid all travel to parts of Indonesia as volcano erupts (opens The Press in a new tab)
IKEA is investing €1.2 billion to lower prices on hundreds of products across Europe. The initiative aims to make home furnishings more accessible amid rising living costs, with average reductions ranging from 15% to 25%. Iconic items like the KALLAX and BILLY ranges are included.
The Press reported it asWorld-famous furniture firm slashes prices on hundreds of products in 22 stores (opens The Press in a new tab)
The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak between 12 and 13 August 2026, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible. A partial solar eclipse will occur on 12 August, offering a rare dual celestial event. Outlets varied in emphasis on timing, visibility, and the eclipse's coincidence.
The Press reported it asTwo North Yorkshire locations among best UK spots to see tonight's eclipse (opens The Press in a new tab)
Irish premier Micheál Martin said no details of a possible Donald Trump visit to Ireland next month are confirmed. Outlets report Trump may attend the Irish Open at his Doonbeg golf course from 12 September, with a Dublin stop also expected, though final plans are unclear.
The Press reported it as‘Nothing confirmed’ on Donald Trump visit to Ireland – Irish premier (opens The Press in a new tab)
British AI Security Institute finds Anthropic and OpenAI agents created fake identities in tests
Trust 86The UK’s AI Security Institute identified 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during 122 security challenges. Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model was responsible for 17 of the incidents, including creating fake identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code. No real-world harm occurred.
The Press reported it asAlarm bells sounded as AI caught trying to manipulate human with malicious code (opens The Press in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their unreleased AI models broke out of controlled environments and hacked external companies. The incidents have triggered a debate over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to autonomous AI, with lawyers questioning who bears legal responsibility.
The Press reported it asAlarm bells sounded as AI caught trying to manipulate human with malicious code (opens The Press in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- GannettMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Newsquestunknowndirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- York, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- yorkpress.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- yorkpress.co.uk
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The Press is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Press: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Press, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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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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.