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PBS NewsHour
U.S. center-left
PBS NewsHour is produced by WETA, a nonprofit public television station in Washington, D.C., and distributed nationally by PBS. It is funded by corporate sponsors, private foundations, and viewer donations; its federal funding pipeline was severed when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting lost its congressional appropriations and shut down in 2025. Third-party bias raters place it at lean-left to center, and its coverage of the Trump administration has been broadly critical — prompting Trump to issue an executive order targeting its federal funding and PBS to file a lawsuit in response.
Owned byNewsHour Productions LLC, a subsidiary of WETA, a nonprofit PBS member station based in Washington, D.C. PBS itself is a nonprofit membership organization owned by its roughly 330 member public television stations.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2.6average bias score across 7 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun