Times Union media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Times Union one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Times Union biased?
The rating organisations do not give Times Union one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Times Union left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Times Union one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Times Union reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Times Union 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 Times Union has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Times Union’s own report linked underneath.
Prime Minister Mark Carney stated he had a 'good conversation' with U.S. President Donald Trump regarding trade. Carney indicated that Canadian and U.S. representatives will work in the coming weeks to finalize a trade deal, which he said would create jobs and boost affordability.
Times Union reported it asClient Challenge (opens Times Union in a new tab)
An upstate New York woman, Marva Cook, was charged with illegal voting after telling Homeland Security she only recently discovered she was not a U.S. citizen. The Trump administration cited the arrest as part of its non‑citizen voter hunt before the midterms.
Times Union reported it asClient Challenge (opens Times Union in a new tab)
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nigel Max Edge for a mass shooting in Southport, North Carolina, in September 2025 that killed three people. Edge, a former Marine with a history of traumatic brain injury and mental illness, has previously been deemed unable to assist in his legal proceedings.
Times Union reported it asClient Challenge (opens Times Union in a new tab)
Ireland's pre-match press conference for their Nations League game against Israel was cut short after a journalist asked coach Heimir Hallgrimsson about alleged racism by Irish players. The team's communications officer intervened, calling the allegations untrue.
Times Union reported it asClient Challenge (opens Times Union in a new tab)
A judge has permanently dismissed the case against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The judge cited political pressure from President Donald Trump and evidence of a flawed installation as reasons for the dismissal.
Times Union reported it asClient Challenge (opens Times Union in a new tab)
A Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv killed 38 people, with four still missing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported 20 injured, including two children. The attack occurred Friday night on an ammunition storage facility. Russia's Defence Ministry announced plans for 'massive strikes' against Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Times Union reported it asDeath toll rises to 38 from Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine this year (opens Times Union in a new tab)
New York Attorney General Letitia James' office is investigating a police shooting that occurred after Pamela Cisneros fatally stabbed Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti. The incident has sparked criticism from a Republican candidate who argues the focus should be on mental health failures.
Times Union reported it asClient Challenge (opens Times Union in a new tab)
The FBI has ended its policy of automatically disqualifying all applicants with past sexual encounters with prostitutes. The bureau will now consider some candidates holistically, though certain past behaviours remain disqualifying.
Times Union reported it asFBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring (opens Times Union in a new tab)
The Trump administration is appealing a judge's decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections. The order could allow the Postal Service to refuse ballots from states not submitting eligible voter lists or following a uniform envelope style.
Times Union reported it asTrump administration appeals latest ruling blocking his mail voting order from taking effect (opens Times Union in a new tab)
The United States announced it would impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian products, effective early Saturday. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated Canada declined to finalize a trade deal on previously agreed terms, leading to the tariffs.
Times Union reported it asUS is set to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products (opens Times Union in a new tab)
California is considering legislation to fine influencers and political campaigns up to $5,000 if they fail to disclose paid political content. The move follows concerns over transparency as campaigns increasingly use social media creators to reach voters, with some cases already under investigation.
Times Union reported it asCalifornia may fine content creators who don't disclose they were paid to post about politics (opens Times Union in a new tab)
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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- HearstMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Albany, Albany County, New York, United States
- Official site
- timesunion.com
- Seen publishing on
- timesunion.com
- 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
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
11 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Times Union is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Times Union’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 7 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 6 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 November 2026. Ratings pulled 7 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Times Union, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Times Union 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.