Outlet track record
Associated Press (via WRAL)
U.S. center-left
The Associated Press is a 178-year-old not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its member U.S. news organizations and funded mainly through content licensing fees. Independent media-bias analysts place it in the center-left range. Since early 2025, the AP has been in active legal conflict with the Trump White House, which banned its reporters from press pool events after the outlet refused to adopt the administration's preferred renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
Owned byNot-for-profit news cooperative owned collectively by its U.S. member newspapers and broadcasters; content reaches readers through WRAL, a local TV and digital outlet owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company (Fletcher-Goodmon family, Raleigh, NC)
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun