The Quad-City Times media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Quad-City Times in the centre. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is The Quad-City Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Quad-City Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Quad-City Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Quad-City Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Quad-City Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Quad-City Times 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 Quad-City Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Quad-City Times’s own report linked underneath.
Democrat Josh Turek is projected to win the Iowa Senate race, defeating Republican Ashley Hinson. Turek, a former Paralympic gold medalist and state representative, will flip a seat previously held by Republicans, marking the first time a Democrat has won a Senate race in Iowa since 2008.
The Quad-City Times reported it asTurek wins Iowa Senate race, Sand elected governor as Democrats celebrate victories (opens The Quad-City Times 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
- Lee EnterprisesMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Cherokee County, Georgia, United States
- Official site
- qctimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- qctimes.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 November 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The Quad-City Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
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 Quad-City Times: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 4 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Quad-City Times, 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 Quad-City Times 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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