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Honolulu Civil Beat

U.S. center-left (Hawaii-focused nonprofit newsroom)

Civil Beat is a Honolulu-based nonprofit news site founded and still substantially backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. It focuses on Hawaii government, politics, and accountability reporting, and its orientation is generally center-left. Its recent coverage of the second Trump administration is mostly critical, centered on how federal actions affect Hawaii.

Owned byCivil Beat Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Founder Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder, started it as a for-profit company in 2010 and kept his investment after it converted to a nonprofit in 2016. A board and the executive editor, Patti Epler, run it. It is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News.

LeaningU.S. center-left (Hawaii-focused nonprofit newsroom)

On the administrationbroadly critical

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3.7average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

5 Justice Department Sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and D.C. Over In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students, Bringing Total Jurisdictions Sued to 25
3 Lala's Center Passes About 46 Miles South of Hawaii's Big Island; One Dead, 100-Plus Homes Damaged, Peak Outages Near 219,000
3 Hawaii Holds Statewide Primary for Governor, Congress and an Open Lieutenant Governor Seat; Rep. Ed Case Reported Winning His Democratic Race