Is WFLD biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WFLD in the centre. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is WFLD biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WFLD in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WFLD left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WFLD in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WFLD reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WFLD are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
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.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Fox Television StationsCorporationdirect owner
- Fox CorporationMedia Conglomerateparent group
- Murdoch familyMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Official site
- fox32chicago.com
- Seen publishing on
- fox32chicago.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story WFLD appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- WFLDCentreHigh factualityErica Schwartz: Who is the new CDC director? (opens WFLD in a new tab)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
Our report: CDC confirms first permanent director in a year with Dr. Erica Schwartz
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WFLD, 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.
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.