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DCist / WAMU
U.S. center-left (public media)
WAMU is a public radio station owned by American University and funded mainly by listeners, underwriters and donors. DCist is a defunct local news site that WAMU shut down in February 2024. WAMU's news coverage is conventional and broadly center-left in its audience and framing, and it covers the Trump administration in a standard, news-driven way. It also reports as an affected party on federal cuts to public media and on federal actions in D.C.
Owned byWAMU 88.5 is licensed to American University, a private university in Washington, D.C. American University has owned DCist since February 2018. DCist was previously owned by Gothamist LLC, which was owned by Joe Ricketts. WAMU operates DCist's archive but has not published new DCist stories since the site closed in 2024.
LeaningU.S. center-left (public media)
On the administrationmostly neutral
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun