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MPR News

U.S. center-left (mainstream public media)

MPR News is the news service of Minnesota Public Radio, a nonprofit that is part of American Public Media Group. It is a mainstream public-media newsroom. Audiences and critics often place it slightly left of center, but its news reporting follows conventional standards. Its coverage of the Trump administration is generally straightforward and fact-focused, with heavy attention to how federal policy affects Minnesota. It has also been openly critical of the public media funding cuts and has urged listeners to protect public media.

Owned byOwned by Minnesota Public Radio, a nonprofit. Minnesota Public Radio is part of American Public Media Group (APMG), a nonprofit that also runs national programming such as Marketplace and Classical MPR. It has no shareholders or billionaire owner.
LeaningU.S. center-left (mainstream public media)
On the administrationmostly neutral
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3.7average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

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