Outlet track record
Axios
U.S. center to lean-left
Axios is a digital news outlet founded in 2017 by former Politico executives and majority-owned since 2022 by Cox Enterprises, a large private media conglomerate based in Atlanta. It presents itself as nonpartisan and focused on concise, fact-based reporting, but multiple independent media-bias trackers rate it as slightly left-leaning based on story selection and framing. Its coverage of the Trump second term has been broadly critical, documenting falling approval ratings, conflicts of interest, the implementation of Project 2025 policies, and controversial immigration enforcement.
Owned byCox Enterprises holds roughly 70%; co-founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz along with employees hold the remaining approximately 30%
LeaningU.S. center to lean-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2.5average bias score across 4 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun