Outlet track record
WHQR / NPR affiliates
U.S. center-left
WHQR is a nonprofit public radio station in Wilmington, NC, affiliated with NPR, the national public radio network. It is funded mainly by listener donations and corporate underwriting, though it lost its federal CPB support after Congress defunded public broadcasting in 2025. NPR's national programming — which WHQR carries — leans center-left and has been broadly critical of Trump administration policies, a posture that contributed directly to the administration's push to eliminate public broadcasting's federal funding.
Owned byWHQR is operated by Friends of Public Radio, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Wilmington, NC. NPR (National Public Radio), the national network whose programming WHQR and similar affiliates carry, is itself a nonprofit membership organization jointly owned by its member stations.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
5average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun