Outlet track record
PBS NewsHour / Associated Press
U.S. center-left
PBS NewsHour is a publicly distributed nightly news program produced by WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., rated slightly left-of-center by most independent media analysts. The Associated Press is a 180-year-old member-owned wire service cooperative serving thousands of outlets globally, also rated slightly left-of-center while earning high marks for factual accuracy. Both organizations experienced direct confrontations with the Trump administration in 2025: NewsHour lost its federal public-broadcasting subsidy after Congress cut CPB funding, while the AP was temporarily banned from White House press pool access over its refusal to adopt the administration's preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico.
Owned byPBS NewsHour is produced by WETA-TV, the PBS member station for Washington, D.C. (based in Arlington, Virginia), and distributed nationally by PBS, a nonprofit public media organization. The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative owned collectively by approximately 1,400 U.S. member news organizations — newspapers, broadcasters, and digital outlets — with no single private or government owner.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
1average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun