Is The Washington Informer biased?
AllSides places The Washington Informer as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
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Is The Washington Informer biased?
AllSides places The Washington Informer as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Washington Informer left or right?
AllSides places The Washington Informer as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Washington Informer reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for The Washington Informer. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What The Washington Informer has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Washington Informer’s own report linked underneath.
The US Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director on 5 August 2026, ending a nearly year-long vacancy. Schwartz, the agency’s 22nd director, takes over an agency that has lost over a quarter of its workforce since 2025 and faced repeated leadership changes under the Trump administration.
The Washington Informer reported it asFirst Black Woman to Lead CDC Takes Helm as Agency Faces Public Health Challenges (opens The Washington Informer 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.
- AllSidesleanLeftCheck 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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Washington Informer.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- washingtoninformer.com
- Seen publishing on
- washingtoninformer.com
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 7 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 Washington Informer cover a story that outlets rated left 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 Washington Informer: its report arrived a median of 27 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 August 2026. Ratings pulled 10 August 2026.
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