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Technician (NC State student newspaper)
U.S. center-left
Technician is the editorially independent student newspaper of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., founded in 1920 and overseen by NC State's Student Media Board of Directors. Its coverage reflects a campus-focused, center-left perspective typical of major research-university student press. Since 2025, its editorials and news coverage have framed the Trump administration's rollback of DEI programs and federal research-funding actions primarily as threats to NC State's campus community, faculty, and student organizations.
Owned byOperated under NC State University's Student Media program, governed by the Student Media Board of Directors within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs (DASA). Editorial content is student-controlled and editorially independent of university administration.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun