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PBS NewsHour (AP wire)

U.S. center-left

PBS NewsHour is produced by NewsHour Productions LLC, a nonprofit subsidiary of WETA-TV, a public broadcaster in Washington, D.C. Bias analysts rate it center-left to lean-left, with studies finding it favors liberal guests at roughly a 5-to-1 ratio and uses critical language about Republican figures more often than Democratic ones. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, and the outlet was itself a direct target of administration action — federal funding for public broadcasting was cut by Congress in 2025 at the administration's urging, leading to significant layoffs and the cancellation of several NewsHour productions.

Owned byProduced by NewsHour Productions LLC, a nonprofit subsidiary of WETA-TV, a PBS member station based in Washington, D.C. WETA acquired full ownership in 2014 from MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
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