Centre-right
estimate · not a score
The Times
🇬🇧UK ·
newspaper · independent
· thetimes.com
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Left
Centre-left
Centre
Centre-right
Right
State / loyalist
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| Founded | 1 January 1785 (as The D no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us |
| Headquarters | 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, United Kingdom no source on file |
| Funding | Commercial operation funded by subscriptions and advertising as a wholly-controlled corporate subsidiary; no state ownership or state funding found in the company filings reviewed. |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we
have measured from published text, per article, with the quote.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK) | company | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
| News Corp Holdings UK & Ireland | company | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
| Murdoch Family Trust | trust/foundation | not disclosed | yes | voting trust | — | link |
| News Corp | company | 100% | yes | equity | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Editor of The Times
Journalist appointed editor of The Times in September 2022; previously editor of The Daily Telegraph and of The Sun, and deputy editor of The Times from 2020.
Journalists
Science Correspondent and Columnist, The Times · science
Science journalist at The Times since 2006; served as the paper's science editor from 2012 to 2024.
Columnist and Feature Writer, The Times · comment · features
Columnist and feature writer for The Times; recipient of the 2020 Orwell Prize for Journalism and twice British Press Awards Interviewer of the Year.
Chief Sports Correspondent, The Times · sport
Sports columnist at The Times (joined News UK in this role in January 2023, having previously written for the paper); named Sports Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2007.
Columnist, The Times · comment · politics
Long-standing Times columnist since the late 1980s; former Conservative Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire (1979–1986).
Covers
What we hold from them
Nothing held from this outlet yet.
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
RTÉ says the Irish economy grew a healthy 3.1%. The Irish Times, from the same release, says growth stalled.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
TheJournal.ie calls the Dover marchers anti-immigrant. RTÉ quotes a councillor — and counts hundreds, then dozens
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RTÉ says "allegations", Novara says "busted", the Morning Star says "scandal"
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RTÉ says a car. The Irish Times and TheJournal.ie say a jeep — under one byline.
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RTÉ says the Stormont review uncovered nothing. The Irish Times says nothing was sent to it.
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‘Top of the class in EU’ v ‘getting weaker at maths and reading’ — one set of scores, one morning
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National Post says $28bn of US imports; The Independent says about $20bn
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Morning Star says eleven MPs barred, the Independent says twelve — and its list includes a non-MP
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RTÉ says the thieves dropped two Renoirs, TheJournal.ie says one
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The Guardian says about 300 flights cancelled, RTÉ says 425, TheJournal.ie says around 200
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