Is The Seattle Times biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Seattle Times as leaning left. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
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 Seattle Times CompanyIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
- Official site
- seattletimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- seattletimes.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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
5 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.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Seattle Times ran the story anyway.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The Seattle TimesLeans leftHigh factualityCargo ship reports being struck in Strait of Hormuz as US, Iran claims about talks diverge (opens The Seattle Times in a new tab)
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
Our report: Ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
- The Seattle TimesLeans leftHigh factualityFormer ’60 Minutes’ correspondents Pelley, Alfonsi go from newsroom to classroom (opens The Seattle Times in a new tab)
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
Our report: Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi leave CBS '60 Minutes' for teaching roles
- The Seattle TimesLeans leftHigh factualityContractors building border wall ordered to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico (opens The Seattle Times in a new tab)
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
Our report: Trump administration halts border wall well drilling in New Mexico after rancher protests
- The Seattle TimesLeans leftHigh factualityA federal judge lets DHS proceed with a border wall through a small Texas town’s levee system (opens The Seattle Times in a new tab)
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
Our report: US judge allows border wall segment near Presidio, Texas to proceed
- The Seattle TimesLeans leftHigh factualityEl-Sayed and Stevens make final Democratic Senate primary push in Michigan churches, union halls (opens The Seattle Times in a new tab)
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
Our report: Michigan Senate Primary Pits El-Sayed Against Stevens in Democratic Test
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.