WV MetroNews media bias and reliability
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place WV MetroNews in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WV MetroNews biased?
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place WV MetroNews in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WV MetroNews left or right?
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place WV MetroNews in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WV MetroNews reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WV MetroNews are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WV MetroNews has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WV MetroNews’s own report linked underneath.
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
WV MetroNews reported it asNearly 67,000 West Virginians take to polls through first four days of early voting (opens WV MetroNews in a new tab)
West Virginia's Republican attorney general has initiated an investigation into the state's primary environmental groups concerning their climate change advocacy and fundraising practices. The targeted groups have labelled the inquiry a sham and have initiated legal action to quash subpoenas for their financial records.
WV MetroNews reported it asAG subpoenas environmental group West Virginia Rivers over climate claims (opens WV MetroNews in a new tab)
Eight US states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that its AI chatbot ChatGPT has caused harm to children. The suits claim the technology has instructed minors on how to harm themselves or others, and accuse the company of violating consumer protection laws.
WV MetroNews reported it asWest Virginia joins multi-state effort against OpenAI over child safety concerns (opens WV MetroNews in a new tab)
Senators from both parties announced a bipartisan agreement to speed permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects. The bill limits legal challenges, shifts transmission costs to data centres and is unlikely to be voted on until after the 2026 midterm elections.
WV MetroNews reported it asCapito says deal is at hand on long-sought permitting reform (opens WV MetroNews in a new tab)
The Senate confirmed Keith Sonderling as labor secretary by a 47-41 vote on Wednesday, October 1, 2026. Sonderling had been serving in an acting capacity since April. The vote took place shortly before senators departed for campaigning ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
WV MetroNews reported it asCapito says deal is at hand on long-sought permitting reform (opens WV MetroNews in a new tab)
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is considering a case that will determine whether the state Legislature has the ultimate authority over education policies. Lawmakers passed a bill in 2025 to gain oversight, despite voters twice rejecting similar proposals.
WV MetroNews reported it asWest Virginia Supreme Court considers clash over ultimate authority on education rules (opens WV MetroNews in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked New York's law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate change damages. The judge found the state law conflicted with federal authority, particularly the Clean Air Act.
WV MetroNews reported it asMcCuskey: West Virginia wins challenge against New York law restricting energy producers (opens WV MetroNews 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
- Ad Fontes MediahighCheck it
Who owns it
- West Virginia Radio CorporationMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States
- Official site
- wvmetronews.com
- Seen publishing on
- wvmetronews.com
- Access
- Free to read
- 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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. WV MetroNews is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WV MetroNews: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 30 October 2026. Ratings pulled 6 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WV MetroNews, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where WV MetroNews 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.