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The Baltimore Banner
U.S. center-left (local nonprofit, philanthropist-funded)
The Baltimore Banner is a digital local news outlet owned by the nonprofit Venetoulis Institute and funded mainly by billionaire-family philanthropy from Stewart Bainum Jr. Its reporting is conventional local watchdog journalism with a center-left tilt in its editorial choices. Its current coverage of the Trump administration is mostly critical, focused on how federal actions affect Maryland.
Owned byOwned by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded and funded by Stewart Bainum Jr., a hotel-industry heir and former Choice Hotels chairman. The institute agreed in 2026 to acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Block Communications.
LeaningU.S. center-left (local nonprofit, philanthropist-funded)
On the administrationbroadly critical
2average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun