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Cardinal & Pine
U.S. left-leaning
Cardinal & Pine is a North Carolina-focused digital news outlet launched in 2020 by Courier Newsroom, a progressive media network. Its coverage emphasizes impacts of policy on working-class communities, rural residents, and communities of color in North Carolina. The outlet has covered Trump administration actions — including VA cuts, immigration enforcement, and federal spending reductions — with a critical lens focused on harm to North Carolinians.
Owned byCourier Newsroom, a progressive digital media company affiliated with the nonprofit ACRONYM and structured through Good Information Inc.
LeaningU.S. left-leaning
On the administrationbroadly critical
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun