Outlet track record
The Wire
Indian left-of-center / anti-BJP
The Wire is a nonprofit Indian news and opinion site founded in 2015 by veteran journalists Siddharth Varadarajan, Sidharth Bhatia, and M.K. Venu, funded through donations and grants rather than a corporate or billionaire owner. It is known for investigative and opinion journalism critical of India's ruling BJP government and Hindu-nationalist politics, positioning it on the left of India's media landscape. Its credibility took a serious hit in 2022 when it retracted a major investigative series after discovering its own reporting team had fabricated evidence.
Owned byOwned and published by the Foundation for Independent Journalism (FIJ), a nonprofit registered under Section 8 of India's Companies Act, founded by journalists Siddharth Varadarajan, Sidharth Bhatia, and M.K. Venu
LeaningIndian left-of-center / anti-BJP
On the administrationnot applicable (Indian outlet; covers the Modi government, not U.S. politics)
5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun