Is Topeka Capital-Journal biased?
The rating organisations do not give Topeka Capital-Journal 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 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Topeka Capital-Journal biased?
The rating organisations do not give Topeka Capital-Journal 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 Topeka Capital-Journal left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Topeka Capital-Journal 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 Topeka Capital-Journal reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Topeka Capital-Journal 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 Topeka Capital-Journal has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Topeka Capital-Journal’s own report linked underneath.
Kansas Democrats pick state senator Cindy Holscher to challenge Republican Ty Masterson for governor
Trust 60Kansas state senator Cindy Holscher won the Democratic primary for governor on 4 August 2026, securing the party’s nomination to face Republican Ty Masterson in November. The race is seen as competitive in a state that has elected governors from the opposite party of the White House for 60 years.
Topeka Capital-Journal reported it asKansas Democrats choose Sen. Cindy Holscher as gubernatorial nominee (opens Topeka Capital-Journal in a new tab)
Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have shifted the selection of state Supreme Court justices from gubernatorial appointment to direct election. The current process, involving a nominating commission and the governor, remains unchanged after the 5 August 2026 primary.
Topeka Capital-Journal reported it asKansans votes no on Supreme Court elections (opens Topeka Capital-Journal 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
- USA TODAY Co.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, United States
- Official site
- cjonline.com
- Seen publishing on
- cjonline.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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
2 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. Topeka Capital-Journal is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Topeka Capital-Journal: its report arrived a median of 7 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Topeka Capital-Journal, 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 Topeka Capital-Journal 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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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.