Outlet track record
WUSA9
U.S. center
WUSA9 is a CBS affiliate serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated by Tegna Inc. under the umbrella of Nexstar Media Group following a contested 2026 acquisition. Major media bias rating organizations — including Media Bias/Fact Check and Ground.news — rate it as centrist and high in factual reliability, with no significant partisan tilt. Its coverage of the Trump administration follows a standard local-news approach: factual reporting on policy and federal actions without a clear critical or supportive editorial line.
Owned byTegna Inc. (a subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, which completed a $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna in March 2026; a federal court injunction issued April 2026 requires Tegna to remain a separately managed business unit pending antitrust litigation)
LeaningU.S. center
On the administrationmostly neutral
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun