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Carolina Journal (John Locke Foundation)
U.S. right (free-market conservative)
Carolina Journal is the news outlet of the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina free-market think tank founded and heavily funded by Republican donor and businessman Art Pope. It covers state politics and policy from an explicitly free-market, limited-government perspective and is rated 'Lean Right' by AllSides. Under the second Trump administration, its coverage has generally aligned with administration priorities such as deregulation, school choice, and fossil-fuel energy production.
Owned byPublished by the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit think tank co-founded and predominantly funded by businessman Art Pope through his family's John William Pope Foundation
LeaningU.S. right (free-market conservative)
On the administrationbroadly supportive
5.8average bias score across 4 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun