WJBF media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WJBF in the centre. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WJBF biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WJBF in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WJBF left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WJBF in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WJBF reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WJBF are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WJBF has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WJBF’s own report linked underneath.
President Donald Trump cut short his weekend at Camp David to return to the White House on Saturday. The move coincided with a US security alert warning of potential rapid escalation in the Middle East due to the Saudi-Houthi conflict.
WJBF reported it asTrump returns to UN, defends his decision to start war against Iran (opens WJBF in a new tab)
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he helped end the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025. He also stated that Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked him for saving lives and called Sharif a 'terrific man'.
WJBF reported it asTrump returns to UN, defends his decision to start war against Iran (opens WJBF in a new tab)
LeJames Norman was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for a 2005 triple murder. On the same day, a Georgia judge issued a stay of execution for Stacey Humphreys, citing a new sentencing law.
WJBF reported it asTexas puts to death a man in killing of 3 during home robbery, the state’s fifth execution this year (opens WJBF in a new tab)
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, marking the first such increase in over three years. The unanimous decision aims to combat inflation, and was followed by a significant drop in gold prices.
WJBF reported it asFed hikes interest rates by quarter point (opens WJBF in a new tab)
Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries have significantly reduced the country's diesel production. Three of Russia's six largest diesel-producing refineries cut production or halted operations entirely in September due to damage from these strikes.
WJBF reported it asZelenskyy says Ukraine will pause strikes on Russia if Kremlin spares critical infrastructure (opens WJBF in a new tab)
Satellite data has detected a large fire and thermal anomalies near Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline. Unconfirmed reports suggest Houthi forces may be responsible, though Saudi authorities have not confirmed the incident.
WJBF reported it asIraq says Saudi pipeline attack originated from its territory, and other Mideast news (opens WJBF in a new tab)
Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are challenging their extradition to the United Kingdom to face charges including rape and sex trafficking. They appeared in a Miami court seeking release on bond, arguing their online boasts were exaggerated personas.
WJBF reported it asShackled Tate brothers testify in bid to get out of jail, but judge delays decision (opens WJBF in a new tab)
The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak between 12 and 13 August 2026, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible. A partial solar eclipse will occur on 12 August, offering a rare dual celestial event. Outlets varied in emphasis on timing, visibility, and the eclipse's coincidence.
WJBF reported it asExtreme Heat to End the Work Week (opens WJBF 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
- Nexstar Media GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 13 August 2026
8 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. WJBF is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WJBF: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 27 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 27 September 2026. Ratings pulled 12 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WJBF, 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 WJBF 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.