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University World News
international, sector-focused (global higher education)
University World News is a London-based online publication covering higher education news from a global perspective, owned by Higher Education Web Publishing Ltd and free to readers. It draws on a network of correspondents across more than 20 countries and is backed partly by U.S. philanthropic foundations. Its coverage of the Trump administration focuses narrowly on higher education policy — visa revocations, research funding cuts, and DEI restrictions — reporting those impacts factually without an overt partisan stance.
Owned byHigher Education Web Publishing Ltd, a London-registered company; editor-in-chief and chairman Brendan O'Malley is a central figure in its operations, which are distributed across a network of education journalists in more than 20 countries
Leaninginternational, sector-focused (global higher education)
On the administrationmixed
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun