Outlet track record
Blue Ridge Public Radio
U.S. center-left
Blue Ridge Public Radio is a nonprofit NPR member station based in Asheville, North Carolina, funded mainly by listener donations and underwriting after losing its federal CPB grant in 2025. Like most NPR affiliates, its news coverage leans toward a mainstream, left-of-center public-radio sensibility. Its coverage of the Trump administration, including the CPB funding cuts that hit its own budget and immigration/disaster-recovery policy, has been largely critical in tone.
Owned byOwned and operated by Western North Carolina Public Radio, Inc., an independent nonprofit; it holds the licenses for NPR-affiliated stations WCQS and WYQS serving Asheville and Western North Carolina.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3.3average bias score across 10 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun