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Backpacker
U.S. outdoor-recreation specialty (apolitical, conservation-friendly)
Backpacker is a hiking and backpacking magazine and website owned by Outside Inc., a privately held outdoor media company. It focuses on trails, gear reviews, skills and safety, not general politics. It covers the Trump administration only on outdoor-related issues, such as public lands, national park staffing and budgets, and conservation rules, and it does so in a mostly neutral way.
Owned byOwned and published by Outside Inc. (Outside Interactive, Inc.), the Boulder, Colorado, outdoor media company led by CEO Robin Thurston. Outside Inc. acquired the magazine in 2021, after Active Interest Media (AIM) had bought it from Rodale.
LeaningU.S. outdoor-recreation specialty (apolitical, conservation-friendly)
On the administrationmostly neutral
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun