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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. center (consumer-service and rankings brand; news is wire-based and mainstream)

Owned byPrivately held by U.S. News & World Report, L.P., controlled by real estate developer and media proprietor Mortimer Zuckerman, who bought it in 1984. Eric Gertler is executive chairman and William Holiber is CEO. Ownership details were not re-verified for 2026 beyond reference sources.
FundingMainly digital advertising, plus licensing and paid products. Revenue comes largely from its consumer rankings (colleges, hospitals, cars, health, travel) and from related data and subscription services. It is not funded by a state or by donations.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

David Lawrence founded the weekly United States News in 1933 and added World Report in 1939. The two merged in 1948 as U.S. News & World Report, which became a major weekly newsmagazine alongside Time and Newsweek. The company was employee-owned from 1962 until 1984, when Mortimer Zuckerman bought it. Zuckerman, a conservative-leaning but independent-minded owner, also owned the New York Daily News, and he often wrote editorials for the magazine. The print magazine shrank over the years, and the company has increasingly relied on its rankings. The college rankings, begun in 1983, are the most influential and most criticized, with disputes over methodology, gaming by schools, and law and medical schools withdrawing from them. Its news site mostly carries wire copy from the Associated Press and Reuters, with a smaller original staff. Its opinion section, edited by Robert Schlesinger, has run pieces critical of Trump, including during his first term. Overall it is a mainstream, commercially driven outlet that shows little consistent partisan slant in its news content. I could not find reliable evidence of a strong shift in its posture toward the second Trump administration, so that rating rests on limited sources.

Sources

  1. U.S. News & World Report (Wikipedia)
  2. Mortimer Zuckerman (Wikipedia)
  3. US News & World Report - SourceWatch
  4. Robert Schlesinger, Managing Editor for Opinion (U.S. News)

Profile compiled 2026-10-11; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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