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Chapelboro
U.S. center-left (local)
Chapelboro is a locally owned digital news site and radio outlet (97.9 The Hill, WCHL-AM) serving Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Orange County, North Carolina. It is owned by a small group of local investors under Rudd Media, LLC, and is funded primarily by advertising. Operating in a strongly Democratic college town and publishing wire stories that frame the Trump administration's second-term actions critically, its overall orientation skews center-left.
Owned byRudd Media, LLC / Chapel Hill Media Group — principal owner Leslie Rudd, a Colorado-based entrepreneur, in partnership with four local Chapel Hill businessmen: Chris Ehrenfeld, Jim Kitchen, Mark Vitali, and Aaron Wright
LeaningU.S. center-left (local)
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun