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13News Now
U.S. local news, mostly neutral (owned by a right-leaning corporate parent)
13News Now is the ABC-affiliated local TV news station for Hampton Roads and northeastern North Carolina, licensed to Hampton, Virginia and based in Norfolk. It is owned by TEGNA, which as of March 2026 is a subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, a company with a broadly center-right corporate profile but a reputation for leaving day-to-day editorial decisions to local stations. Its coverage of national politics, including the Trump administration, is largely limited to wire-service and network-fed content rather than original opinion journalism, giving it a mostly neutral posture.
Owned byWVEC-TV, branded 13News Now, is owned by TEGNA Inc., which itself became a subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group after Nexstar closed its $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA in March 2026 (though a federal court injunction from a multistate antitrust suit has since frozen integration of the two companies)
LeaningU.S. local news, mostly neutral (owned by a right-leaning corporate parent)
On the administrationmostly neutral
5average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun