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Stateline
U.S. center-left (nonprofit, state-policy focus)
Stateline is a nonprofit news service that covers state government and policy. It is owned by States Newsroom, which was started with help from a progressive-aligned nonprofit incubator. Its coverage of the Trump administration centers on how federal actions affect states, and it generally gives more attention to critics' concerns than to supporters' arguments, though much of it is straight explanatory reporting.
Owned byOwned by States Newsroom, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Stateline joined it in 2023 after about 25 years at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
LeaningU.S. center-left (nonprofit, state-policy focus)
On the administrationmixed
3.6average bias score across 8 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun