Detailed Report

Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180

History

Founded in 1903, The Denton Record-Chronicle is the main daily broadsheet newspaper for the city of Denton, Texas and Denton County. The current editor is Sean McCrory.

Funded by / Ownership

The Denton Record-Chronicle is owned by the Denton Media Company and is funded through advertising and subscription fees.

Analysis / Bias

In review, the Denton Record-Chronicle covers local news through journalist with minimal bias such as this: Denton auditor: City credit cards need more monitoring. National news is mostly covered by the Associated Press and also Texas media such as the Texas Tribune. All stories are properly sourced. Editorially, they cover both sides, but do tend to slightly favor the left with Op-Ed’s such as this: Texas GOP leadership must root out racial bias and religious bigotry for the party to succeed. Typically, news coverage is low biased and Op-Ed’s lean slightly left. Combined, this still qualifies as a least biased source based on straight news reporting.

A factual search reveals they have never failed a fact check.

Overall, we rate the Denton Record-Chronicle Least Biased based on accurate straight news reporting and only a slight leftward lean editorially. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (D. Van Zandt 3/12/2019)

Source: https://www.dentonrc.com