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Bloomberg

-0.87
CenterCenter biasWhat does this mean?

How we determined this rating:

  • Independent Review
  • Editorial Review: Jun 2026, May 2026
  • AllSides has low or initial confidence in this bias rating.

Unless otherwise noted, this bias rating refers only to online news coverage, not TV, print, or radio content.

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Contents
  1. About Bloomberg's Bias Rating
  2. What a "Center" Rating Means
  3. Bias Reviews
  4. Confidence Level
  5. Additional Information
  6. Ownership & Funding

About Bloomberg's Bias Rating

Bloomberg is featured on the AllSides Media Bias Chart™.

Bloomberg is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Center.

What a "Center" Rating Means

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Center either do not show much predictable media bias, display a balance of articles with left and right biases, or equally balance left and right perspectives.

Center doesn't mean better! A Center media bias rating does not necessarily mean a source is totally unbiased, neutral, perfectly reasonable, or credible,just as Left and Right don't necessarily mean extreme, wrong, unreasonable, or not credible. AllSides encourages people to read outlets across the political spectrum.

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Bias Reviews

We use multiple methods to analyze sources. Learn how we rate media bias.

Bloomberg Rated Center in June 2026 Editorial Review; Overall Bias Rating Shifts from Lean Left to Center

An expert panel of right, center and left panelists rated Bloomberg’s bias Center (-0.93) following a June 2026 Editorial Review. This average, weighed with other ratings, resulted in Bloomberg’s bias rating changing from Lean Left to barely inside the Center category. 


This was the second Editorial Review for the outlet in a short time; panelists agreed to review Bloomberg again after its May 2026 review because that review, coupled with the average from the March 2026 Blind Bias Survey, also resulted in a category change from Lean Left to Center. Read more about this category change in our blog post here. 

During this review period, panelists identified several indicators of a Lean Left bias, but there were enough stories rated Center that it shifted the overall average. The most common media bias types detected included word choice bias, slant, viewpoint placement/viewpoint omission and subjective qualifying adjectives. Economic coverage was seen as largely Center, but immigration coverage was seen as more Lean Left and giving more space to immigrant voices.

The story "US Job Openings Tick Up in Sign of Steady Labor Demand" was seen as “straightforward, data-driven reporting,” and panelists noted that Bloomberg's economic coverage overall leaned “neutral to pro-capitalist,” helping offset Lean Left biases found in its politics reporting. One panelist noted the story had “no evidence of spin, slant, or opinion stated as fact.”

Several panelists also noted a recurring pattern where articles appeared Lean Left on first read but became more balanced further into the story. A Lean Right panelist described this pattern in "Supreme Court Backs Birthright Citizenship in Blow to Trump," noting the report gave "more voice to people who believe there is a right to birthright citizenship" early on, before including quotes from the conservative Justices later in the article.

In "Supreme Court Will Consider Right to Own 'Assault Weapons'," a Lean Right panelist and two Center panelists all identified slant in the lede: "The US Supreme Court agreed to consider whether Americans have a constitutional right to own so-called assault rifles, the popular weapons that have repeatedly been used in mass killings.” One Center panelist noted, "All the quotes in the piece are in favor of a ban — no quotes against it. Slant and viewpoint omission." A Lean Right panelist added that the term "assault weapon" is "a made-up term with zero origin actually within formal gun classification." 

Immigration coverage tended to Lean Left, portraying immigrants sympathetically; however, Bloomberg did include right-leaning perspectives on the issue in articles, offering some balance:

  •  How Trump's Crackdown on H-1B Visas Imperils the American Dream
    • Subjective qualifying adjectives and slant: "Doubts have accelerated as Donald Trump's administration cracks down on immigration — both legal and illegal — and expresses outright hostility toward some newcomers, including racist insults and accusations that they're stealing jobs."The Center panelist noted the words "radical" and "chaotic" elsewhere in the piece "are Bloomberg's interpretation."
    • Lean Left slant in headline — A Lean Right panelist noted, “Some people think H-1B visas imperil the American Dream for people native to the US.”
    • Lean Right perspective adds some balance: “But critics of looser policy sometimes argue that other newcomers lack his attitude. They point to neighborhoods or even condo buildings where immigrants from a particular country congregate. Within those communities, critics say, it’s possible to live in the US while rarely speaking English and without absorbing much of American culture.”

Other Stories reviewed included:

  • Understanding the Long Fight Over Birthright Citizenship
    • Bias by viewpoint placement: A panelist noted “unbiased at the beginning, but then randomly includes this: ‘Legal arguments aside, Thomas Wolf, the director of democracy initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law, argued that scrapping birthright citizenship would upend American life by requiring parents to prove their own citizenship when their children are born,’ — Bloomberg  doesn’t balance this with a view from the other side.”
    • Word choice bias: “undocumented immigrants”
  • Supreme Court Opens Midterm Ad Floodgates, Giving GOP an Edge 
    • A panelist said the report quotes someone from “Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research organization focused on democracy,” writing “they note it’s nonpartisan, but don’t mention the bent of the ACLU in the birthright citizenship case, nor the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law in another article.” 
    • Balanced quotes: A reviewer noted Bloomberg quoted“the GOP celebrating and the Dems not as happy.”
  • America’s Biggest Wind Farm Arrives Just as Industry Heads for Declines
    • Word choice bias: “Donald Trump's assault on renewable energy”, “Trump’s anti-wind campaign.” 
    • Balanced quoting: highlights Trump admin arguments and clean energy groups.
  • S&P 500 Climbs at End of Best Quarter Since 2020: Markets Wrap
    • A panelist wrote this article had “good context” and that “positive indicators of economy under Trump could be perceived as on the right, while sentiment remains lower.”
  • House Passes Online Safety Bill as Senate Eyes Stricter Push
    • Balanced: A panelist noted this story choice was “balanced” and “very interesting and semi under the radar story” that included “bipartisan pushback from Senate, included viewpoints both in favor of and against the bill with solid explanations, great context.”

Additional stories reviewed:

Bloomberg Bias Rated Lean Left in May 2026 Editorial Review

A panel of six expert bias reviewers on the left, center and right rated Bloomberg’s bias Lean Left (-1.3) on average in a May 2026 Editorial Review. 

This review’s Lean Left rating, combined with the March 2026 Blind Bias Survey, produced an overall Center average for Bloomberg. Given reviewers' low confidence in that category change from Lean Left to Center, a follow-up review was conducted in June 2026.

Recurring media bias types that panelists detected during the review period included word choice bias, spin, opinion stated as fact, viewpoint placement and story choice.

Story choice bias came up frequently. A Lean Left panelist pointed to the article, "Midwest Pump Prices Are Spiking at Worst Possible Time for Trump" as the reporter framing gas prices as a political liability for President Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms. A Lean Right panelist also detected story choice bias in the article, "US Is Ramping Up Surveillance Flights Near Cuba, CNN Says," which described Cuba's government only as a "one-party rule in the Caribbean nation," an example of word choice bias, which the panelist said omitted "contextual info about communist dictatorship."

A Lean Left panelist detected bias in "How Trump's EPA Is Easing Rules on a Carcinogenic Gas," noting the headline and lede placed health risks in its opening before explaining the administration's rationale under a subheading well past the midpoint of the article, an example of viewpoint placement bias. The same panelist noted the headline could just as easily have read "Trump's EPA Eases Rules on Gas to Protect Domestic Supply Chains."

Panelists identified opinion statements presented as fact in "How Trump Has Made the Doctor Shortage Worse," where the reporter editorialized without citing any sources: "America, growing grayer every year, is in desperate need of doctors.” Bias by omission was also present, with one panelist writing that the piece "only includes perspectives from medical students" with no voices from the Trump administration or DHS.

The Lean Right panelists judged the outlet as more biased than the other panelists. The Lean Left panelists noted that even though some of Bloomberg’s articles had a lean left tilt, they were balanced out by extensive context and balance, even if it was buried further down in the stories.  

While reviewers determined the outlet had a strong Lean Left bias in its politics section, several panelists agreed that Bloomberg's hard news and coverage of the economy were more balanced, which is why the outlet wasn’t rated further to the left on the bias scale. Several reviewers identified bias against New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in its economy stories, with one reviewer saying during the review the outlet writes “pro-capitalism” stories. 

Stories reviewed included:

Additional stories reviewed:

Bloomberg Rated Center in March 2026 Blind Bias Survey

Bloomberg was rated Center (-0.39) on average in a March 2026 Blind Bias Survey. The survey had 381 respondents from across the political spectrum. Because the findings diverged from AllSides' Lean Left rating of Bloomberg, further review was planned.

Respondents who self-identified as Left, Lean Left, Center, and Lean Right rated Bloomberg Center on average; respondents who rated their bias Right rated it Lean Left. Democrats and Independents rated it Center on average; Republicans rated it Lean Left. 

Bloomberg rated Lean Left in Aug. 2020 AllSides Blind Bias Survey

AllSides changed Bloomberg's media bias rating from Center to Lean Left after reviewing the data from our August 2020 Blind Bias Survey, which found that respondents from all political groups on average rated Bloomberg's bias as Lean Left.

Pluralities of respondents across groups who identified their own personal political bias as Left, Lean Left, Center, or Lean Right all rated Bloomberg as Lean Left; a plurality of Right respondents rated Bloomberg's bias as Left.

 

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Confidence Level

Confidence is determined by how many reviews have been applied and consistency of data.

As of July 2026, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Center rating for Bloomberg. If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase.

Additional Information

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data and media company founded in 1981 in New York City. It initially began as a computerized system founded by Michael Bloomberg with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, and Charles Zegar, designed to provide real-time market data and analytics to firms on Wall Street. With the help of an ownership investment by Merill Lynch, the company was able to develop the Bloomberg terminal computer system in 1983.

Bloomberg currently provides news in a variety of formats, including a wire service, a global television network, digital websites, a radio station, newsletters and magazines. With a focus on business and economics-related topics, Bloomberg News has redefined itself to become the “chronicle of capitalism,” as editor-in-chief John Micklethwait indicated in 2015. Bloomberg’s main source of revenue remains the Bloomberg Terminal, which offers financial software tools to companies and organizations on Wall Street. 

Source: Bloomberg Facts

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Bloomberg Ownership and Funding

Funding and ownership do not influence bias ratings. We rate the bias of content only.

Owner: Bloomberg LP

Bloomberg News is owned by Bloomberg Inc. Bloomberg Inc. is majority owned by Micheal Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New York City, who ran in the Democratic Primary in 2020 and was ranked the 16th richest person in the world by Forbes in 2020, with an estimated net worth of $48 billion as of April 2020.

Financing and ownership information last updated February 22, 2021. If you think this information is out of date or needs to be updated, please contact us.

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