Outlet track record
Morningstar
U.S. financial/business, broadly centrist
Morningstar is a Chicago-based financial research and data firm, publicly traded but still substantially controlled by its founder. Its editorial output — market outlooks, fund ratings, economic commentary — is oriented toward investors and financial professionals rather than general news audiences, and it covers Trump administration policies primarily through the lens of their market and economic impact rather than partisan politics. Its coverage has been broadly data-driven and centrist, with no consistent pattern of favoring or opposing the administration.
Owned byPublicly traded on NASDAQ (ticker: MORN); founder Joe Mansueto holds approximately 39–40% of shares and is the largest individual shareholder; remainder held by institutional investors
LeaningU.S. financial/business, broadly centrist
On the administrationmostly neutral
2.3average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun