Outlet track record
Cowboy State Daily
U.S. right
Cowboy State Daily is a Wyoming-focused digital news outlet owned by Republican donor B. Wayne Hughes Jr., who also contributed $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration. The outlet leans right in its news framing and opinion content, and independent analyses have found its political coverage tends to favor candidates and officeholders that Hughes has personally backed. Its editor attended Trump's 2025 inauguration and the outlet has rarely challenged the administration's policies in its opinion pages.
Owned byB. Wayne Hughes Jr., a Wyoming businessman and Republican donor, who purchased the outlet in February 2022. It was originally co-founded with seed funding from Foster Friess, a prominent Republican megadonor.
LeaningU.S. right
On the administrationbroadly supportive
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun