The Week in Coverage
Every Friday: how the press covered the week, counted rather than asserted.
The rest of this site reports what happened. This is the column about how it was reported: where the left and the right diverged most, which stories one side barely carried, and which reporting scored highest and lowest, with the counts behind every figure.
None of it rates a newsroom. The scores grade the reporting each story was written from, and the leanings are published by three named organisations rather than by us.
Half the stories one side ignores, it runs a day later
5 August 2026
Of the 93 stories flagged as missing from one side of the spectrum, 68 carried enough rated outlets to judge — and 34 of those had since been picked up by the side that first ignored them. A blindspot is a snapshot, not a verdict.
The outlets every rater calls centre — and why the AP is not one
4 August 2026
There is no unbiased news source, but there is a checkable version of the question: which outlets do all three rating organisations independently call centre? Of the 141 rated by all three, 50 get a unanimous verdict and 30 of those are centre.
The media bias charts disagree with each other on most outlets
4 August 2026
Three organisations publish the bias charts people search for, and they are not measuring quite the same thing. Counted across 338 outlets rated by at least two of them, 197 get different verdicts — and on 141 outlets rated by all three, only 50 are unanimous.
Questions
What is The Week in Coverage?
A weekly column on how the press covered the week rather than on what happened. It reports the widest divergence between left and right coverage, the stories one side barely carried, and the highest and lowest scored reporting, with the counts behind each figure.
Do these scores rate news outlets?
No. Every score grades the original reporting an article was written from, not the publisher that filed it. MediaBias News does not rate outlets; the leanings it publishes are the work of AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, each named beside its own verdict.
How is the coverage split measured?
By counting the outlets that ran a story and grouping them by the leaning their rater published. Every figure is given with its denominator, because outlets no rater has placed are not in the percentage and a split quoted without that is misleading.