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WRAL

U.S. center-left

WRAL is a Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate owned by the privately held Capitol Broadcasting Company, making it one of the very few locally and independently owned stations among top-25 U.S. market network affiliates. It leans center-left editorially, with a strong emphasis on factual accuracy and active political fact-checking. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term has repeatedly scrutinized and rebutted claims made by President Trump and his allies.

Owned byCapitol Broadcasting Company, owned by the Fletcher-Goodmon family (four generations of private, family ownership)

LeaningU.S. center-left

On the administrationbroadly critical

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2.6average bias score across 18 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

2 NC Attorney General Files Testimony Opposing Most of Duke Energy Progress's Proposed Two-Year Rate Increase
4 North Carolina Elections Board Votes to Let County Boards Reject Photo-ID Provisional Ballots by Majority Instead of Unanimous Vote
2 North Carolina Council Classifies Eight Counties in 'Exceptional' Drought as Statewide Dry Spell Continues
2 North Carolina State Audit Reports Over $1 Million in 'Questionable' Spending by Former Cary Town Manager and Staff
4 North Carolina Reports More Than 300 Cyclospora Cases as State Source Stays Unidentified
4 North Carolina Publishes 2024-25 School Report Cards; Letter-Grade Formula Draws Renewed Dispute
2 Raleigh Gives City Manager Power to Speed Up Stage 2 Water Limits as Drought Covers Half of North Carolina
2 Wake County Democrats Petition Commissioners for $200,000 After NC State Early Voting Site Is Moved Off Central Campus
3 Duke Energy Seeks 11.6% Residential Rate Increase in North Carolina as Low-Income Bill Credit Nears Expiration
2 Stein and Republican Legislative Leaders Jointly Ask NC Supreme Court for More Time in Appointment-Power Cases
2 Raleigh Officials Draft Youth Curfew After July 4 Weekend Shootings
2 North Carolina Gov. Stein Vetoes Public-Camping Bill; Republicans Say They Will Try to Override
2 North Carolina Gov. Stein Signs $34 Billion State Budget Without Vetoing It
2 Raleigh Mayor Weighs Youth Curfew After July 4 Weekend Crowds and Nine Shootings
3 North Carolina Gov. Stein Signs Four Bills on Police Pay, Minor Protection, Elder Fraud and Well Permitting