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The Washington Post

U.S. center-left

The Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos through his private holding company and is funded mainly by digital subscriptions and advertising. Independent media bias assessors consistently rate its news coverage as left-leaning or center-left, though Bezos has since 2024 pushed institutional changes — including ending presidential endorsements and reorienting the opinion section toward free-market themes — that have blurred its editorial identity. The newsroom's reporting on the Trump administration has remained broadly critical in tone even as the paper's leadership has taken steps widely seen as accommodating toward the Trump orbit.

Owned byJeff Bezos (through Nash Holdings LLC), who purchased it in August 2013 for $250 million

LeaningU.S. center-left

On the administrationbroadly critical

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3.9average bias score across 41 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

5 CDC Director Nominee Erica Schwartz Questioned by Senators on Vaccine Policy and Independence From HHS Secretary Kennedy
4 House Republicans Introduce Stopgap Bill to Fund Government Through December 4
3 ICE on Pace for Record Monthly Arrests in July, Averaging More Than 1,400 a Day
3 North Carolina Reports 300-Plus Cyclosporiasis Cases, Centered in Wake County; State Says It Is Separate From Taco Bell Lettuce Outbreak
4 CDC and FDA Link Cyclospora Outbreak to Shredded Lettuce Served at Taco Bell; Supplier Taylor Farms Begins Recall
4 Epstein Survivors and AG Nominee Todd Blanche Give Opposing Accounts of Meeting Held to Secure a Republican Senator's Vote
3 IEA Report Estimates $6.5 Trillion in Non-China Industry Exposed to Rare-Earth Supply Disruption
3 Maryland Legislature Sets August Special Session on a Redistricting Constitutional Amendment
2 North Carolina Reports More Than 300 Cyclospora Cases as State Source Stays Unidentified
3 UK Designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a Hostile-State Threat Under New Law; Parliamentary Approval Pending
5 Darline Graham Nordone Appointed and Sworn In as South Carolina's First Female U.S. Senator
3 CDC and FDA Investigate 12-Case E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Recalled Frozen Blueberries Sold at Publix
3 Houthis Fire Missiles and Drones at Saudi Arabia's Abha Airport After Strike on Sanaa Airport
6 Trump and Iraqi PM al-Zaidi Announce U.S. Energy Deals and September 30 Target for Full Troop Withdrawal
4 CDC Reports 1,645 Confirmed Cyclosporiasis Cases in 34 States as Source Investigation Continues