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U.S. News & World Report (Reuters wire)

U.S. center — international wire service

Owned byU.S. News & World Report is privately held; Mortimer Zuckerman, a real-estate and media billionaire, purchased it in 1984 and retains ownership, though Eric Gertler became CEO in May 2022. The Reuters wire content it distributes is produced by Reuters, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, whose majority shareholder (approximately 66.7% of shares as of 2025) is the Woodbridge Company, the holding vehicle of the Canadian Thomson family.
FundingU.S. News & World Report earns revenue through digital advertising, licensing its rankings brand to the institutions it rates, subscription services for premium data, and educational-technology acquisitions. Reuters is funded by licensing its news wire to thousands of subscribing media organizations worldwide and through Thomson Reuters' broader professional-information and legal-data business.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

U.S. News was founded in 1933 by journalist David Lawrence as a domestic-policy weekly newspaper, itself a successor to his United States Daily (1926). In 1948 it merged with his internationally focused World Report to create U.S. News & World Report. Under Lawrence the publication had a somewhat more conservative editorial voice than rivals Time and Newsweek, focusing on politics and economics while largely ignoring sports and the arts. Mortimer Zuckerman, a Canadian-American real-estate magnate and longtime Democratic donor, purchased the outlet in 1984 and served as editor-in-chief, contributing opinion columns that were centrist-to-moderate in tone. The print weekly shut down in 2010 and the brand reinvented itself around annual rankings — colleges, hospitals, cars, and consumer products — which now form the core of its revenue and public identity. Eric Gertler assumed the CEO role in May 2022, indicating a professional management layer beneath Zuckerman's continued ownership. For straight news, the site relies heavily on the Reuters wire: Reuters was established in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuters as a telegraph-based news service; it merged into Thomson Reuters in 2008, and editorial independence is formally protected by the Reuters Trust Principles and a special Founders Share held by a separate trust company. Reuters is rated 'least biased' with 'very high factual reporting' by Media Bias/Fact Check and 'center' by AllSides; despite this, the Trump administration added Reuters to a White House 'Media Offender' list in late 2025, citing what it called unfair coverage.

Sources

  1. U.S. News & World Report — Wikipedia
  2. Mortimer Zuckerman — Wikipedia
  3. Eric Gertler Assumes Role of CEO of U.S. News & World Report
  4. Reuters — Bias and Credibility — Media Bias/Fact Check
  5. Reuters Media Bias — AllSides
  6. Who Owns Thomson Reuters Company? — PortersFiveForce.com
  7. Trump administration's 'media bias' list raises alarm, CPJ says
  8. Reuters — The White House media-bias page
  9. About U.S. News
  10. History of U.S. News and World Report Inc. — FundingUniverse

Profile compiled 2026-06-30; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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