Outlet track record
WUNC / WFAE
U.S. center-left
WUNC is a public-university-licensed NPR affiliate based in Chapel Hill, N.C., while WFAE is an independent-nonprofit-owned NPR affiliate serving the Charlotte area. Both carry NPR national programming and produce local journalism that media bias trackers consistently rate as center-left in framing. Their coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, addressing press freedom, immigration enforcement, and federal efforts to cut public media funding.
Owned byWUNC is licensed to and operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a public university. WFAE is owned by the University Radio Foundation, Inc., an independent nonprofit that took over from UNC Charlotte in 1993.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun