Outlet track record
Arab News
Saudi state-aligned (English-language, Saudi government-linked ownership)
Arab News is a Saudi English-language daily owned by SRMG, a media group with Saudi state and royal-family links. Its coverage generally reflects Saudi government perspectives and priorities. Toward the Trump administration it tends to be factual and official-sounding, stressing U.S.-Saudi ties, and it does not take an openly critical or partisan U.S. line.
Owned byOwned by the Saudi Research and Media Group (SRMG, formerly Saudi Research and Marketing Group). SRMG's main shareholder has been tied to the Saudi state, and its chairman has been linked to the royal family (Prince Turki bin Salman). Reference sources describe the main shareholder as the National Commercial Bank (AlAhli), which the Public Investment Fund owns. These details come from secondary sources and may be out of date.
LeaningSaudi state-aligned (English-language, Saudi government-linked ownership)
On the administrationmostly neutral
4.2average bias score across 5 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun