Is Winston-Salem Journal biased?
The rating organisations do not give Winston-Salem Journal one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Winston-Salem Journal biased?
The rating organisations do not give Winston-Salem Journal one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Winston-Salem Journal left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Winston-Salem Journal one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Winston-Salem Journal reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Winston-Salem Journal are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Winston-Salem Journal has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Winston-Salem Journal’s own report linked underneath.
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in US data centres, extending a campaign to exclude Chinese technology from critical infrastructure. The move follows recent prohibitions on Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, with enforcement challenges and industry costs expected.
Winston-Salem Journal reported it asReport: Feds will ban Chinese data center devices (opens Winston-Salem Journal in a new tab)
New Mexico filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing them of withholding unredacted files critical to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The state says repeated requests for information were ignored or denied, hindering its probe into alleged sex crimes.
Winston-Salem Journal reported it asNew Mexico sues to get unredacted Epstein files (opens Winston-Salem Journal in a new tab)
Serbia's football association withdrew support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid, joining European opposition after FIFA's failed $4.2 billion tournament stake sale. The reversal came 70 days after Serbia initially backed Infantino, with the association calling for new leadership to restore trust in global football governance.
Winston-Salem Journal reported it asKey FIFA figures break ranks with Gianni Infantino (opens Winston-Salem Journal in a new tab)
The US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles, including ATACMS and PrSM, during five months of war with Iran, according to multiple anonymous sources. Stockpiles of defensive interceptors have also fallen sharply, with 65% of Patriot missiles expended since February.
Winston-Salem Journal reported it asSources: US used 'virtually all' precision missiles (opens Winston-Salem Journal 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
Who owns it
- Lee EnterprisesMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
- Official site
- journalnow.com
- Seen publishing on
- journalnow.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
4 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.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Winston-Salem Journal ran the story anyway.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Winston-Salem Journal: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 9 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 August 2026. Ratings pulled 9 August 2026.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Winston-Salem 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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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.