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Oregon Capital Chronicle
U.S. center-left
The Oregon Capital Chronicle is a Salem-based nonprofit newsroom launched in 2021 as an affiliate of States Newsroom, a national network of state-focused nonprofit outlets. It covers Oregon government, politics, and policy, and is rated left-leaning by media-bias trackers, with story selection and opinion content that generally favors progressive viewpoints. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, documenting Oregon's legal challenges to federal policies, the effects of Medicaid cuts on state hospitals, and what it frames as administration threats to elections and environmental monitoring.
Owned byStates Newsroom, a national nonprofit news network; the Oregon Capital Chronicle operates as a State Newsroom affiliate with its own local editorial leadership
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun