WRIC media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WRIC in the centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WRIC biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WRIC in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WRIC left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WRIC in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WRIC reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WRIC 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 WRIC has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WRIC’s own report linked underneath.
The Trump administration has produced at least 13 campaign-style advertisements using taxpayer funds to promote President Donald Trump and his policies. Some of these ads have aired on major television networks.
WRIC reported it asThe Political Recap: President Trump using taxpayer dollars for ads? (opens WRIC in a new tab)
Two Christian student organizations have filed a federal lawsuit against Virginia State University, claiming a new campus ministry policy unconstitutionally restricts their religious freedom and singles out Christian groups for different treatment.
WRIC reported it asVSU hit with lawsuit claiming discrimination against Christian student groups (opens WRIC in a new tab)
The Department of Homeland Security used $20 million in taxpayer funds for advertisements that critics say glorify President Donald Trump and may violate anti-propaganda laws. The ads were funded through U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
WRIC reported it asVirginia lawmakers react to 'taxpayer-funded advertisements that glorify President Donald Trump' (opens WRIC in a new tab)
The White House has abandoned plans for an executive order that would have given political appointees more control over National Institutes of Health research grants. Bipartisan opposition, led by Senator Susan Collins, appears to have halted the initiative.
WRIC reported it asRichmond biotech company feels pressure over NIH grant uncertainty (opens WRIC in a new tab)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver a televised address to the nation on September 16 at 6 p.m. Moscow time. The speech is in anticipation of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place from September 18 to 20. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced the president's speech.
WRIC reported it asRussia votes in wartime parliamentary election set to secure the Kremlin’s power (opens WRIC in a new tab)
Russia has begun a three-day parliamentary election, the first since the start of the war in Ukraine. Polling stations opened in the Far East, with President Vladimir Putin's party widely expected to win the 450 seats in the State Duma. Voting is also taking place in occupied Ukrainian territories.
WRIC reported it asRussia votes in wartime parliamentary election set to secure the Kremlin’s power (opens WRIC in a new tab)
An interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, pulled from ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" due to FCC pressure, has garnered millions of views on YouTube. The move has sparked debate about censorship and the role of the FCC in broadcast content.
WRIC reported it asTalarico rips Trump’s ‘corny nicknames’ for opponents in Kimmel interview (opens WRIC 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.
WRIC reported it asCentral Virginia Remembers 9/11 25 Years Later (opens WRIC in a new tab)
The Trump administration is drafting a rule to allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to receive child care subsidies. The proposal would redirect funds from a program intended for working parents and is championed by Vice President JD Vance.
WRIC reported it asStay-at-home parents could be paid by the government, according to White House draft (opens WRIC in a new tab)
Luis Manuel Aviles, father of a US Navy sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, was released from immigration detention. His case was dismissed by an immigration judge, prompting a congressional investigation into his arrest during a federal immigration crackdown.
WRIC reported it asFather of Navy sailor aboard USS Lincoln released from immigration custody (opens WRIC 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
- 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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 25 August 2026
10 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. WRIC is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WRIC: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 October 2026. Ratings pulled 24 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WRIC, 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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