WHYY media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give WHYY one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WHYY biased?
The rating organisations do not give WHYY one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WHYY left or right?
The rating organisations do not give WHYY one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is WHYY reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WHYY are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WHYY has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WHYY’s own report linked underneath.
Governor Mikie Sherrill asked Lieutenant Governor Dale Caldwell to step down after a 61‑page investigation detailed sexual harassment, a romantic advance toward a staffer’s friend and attempts to promote a romantic partner without disclosure. Caldwell was given until Friday to resign and has denied wrongdoing.
WHYY reported it asN.J. Gov. Sherrill calls on Lt. Gov. Caldwell to resign after releasing investigation findings (opens WHYY in a new tab)
Republican House hopeful Joseph Arminio was expelled from a candidate forum in Wilmington after repeatedly using male pronouns for Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride. Moderator Ken Grant warned him, the crowd booed, and his microphone was shut off before he left the stage.
WHYY reported it asDel. GOP House nominee pressured to drop out of race after transphobic comments (opens WHYY in a new tab)
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the U.S. Postal Service not to implement President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail balloting. The order came late Sunday, September 13, 2026, adding an obstacle to the administration's efforts to change election rules as the Supreme Court considers an appeal.
WHYY reported it asSecond federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with U.S. Supreme Court poised to weigh in (opens WHYY in a new tab)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
WHYY reported it asU.S. marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks (opens WHYY in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
WHYY reported it asTrump again appeals to Supreme Court on mail-voting restrictions with midterm elections looming (opens WHYY in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked new U.S. Postal Service rules that could delay mail-in ballots, following warnings from a whistleblower and election officials. The Trump administration is appealing the order.
WHYY reported it asDelaware lawmakers warn Trump’s mail ballot order could disenfranchise voters (opens WHYY in a new tab)
A 22-year-old college student was shot and killed by police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, after he mistakenly went to the wrong house. His father stated his son was on a FaceTime call with friends moments before the shooting.
WHYY reported it asInvestigation underway after Upper Pottsgrove police shoot and kill a man outside Montco home (opens WHYY in a new tab)
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
We hold no ownership record for WHYY.
Where it publishes from
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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 20 August 2026
7 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.
We have not seen WHYY cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WHYY: its report arrived a median of 24 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 30 September 2026. Ratings pulled 19 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WHYY, 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 WHYY 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.