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WUNC

U.S. center-left

WUNC is a public radio station licensed to Chapel Hill, NC, and operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is an NPR member station rated Left-Center by Media Bias/Fact Check, reflecting a slight liberal lean in story selection while maintaining high factual standards. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, focusing on federal funding cuts to public media, CDC messaging restrictions, vaccine policy controversies, and the administration's rollout of Project 2025 policies.

Owned byOperated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; day-to-day business management handled through WUNC Public Radio LLC (established 2015) to maintain editorial independence from the university

LeaningU.S. center-left

On the administrationbroadly critical

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3.4average bias score across 14 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

4 NC Attorney General Files Testimony Opposing Most of Duke Energy Progress's Proposed Two-Year Rate Increase
3 North Carolina's Driest Year on Record Prompts Mandatory Water Restrictions Across Triangle and Charlotte Regions
3 North Carolina Council Classifies Eight Counties in 'Exceptional' Drought as Statewide Dry Spell Continues
3 Raleigh Gives City Manager Power to Speed Up Stage 2 Water Limits as Drought Covers Half of North Carolina
3 NC Legislature Recesses Until July 27 With Homeless-Camping Veto, Election Bill, and Governor-Power Amendments Unresolved
3 North Carolina Supreme Court Extends Briefing Deadlines in Cases Over Governor's Appointment Powers
4 Duke Energy Seeks 11.6% Residential Rate Increase in North Carolina as Low-Income Bill Credit Nears Expiration
4 Raleigh Officials Draft Youth Curfew After July 4 Weekend Shootings
3 North Carolina Gov. Stein Vetoes Public-Camping Bill; Republicans Say They Will Try to Override
5 North Carolina State Auditor Opens Review of Growing Opportunity Scholarship Voucher Program
3 North Carolina Legislature Sends Two-Year, $34.4 Billion Budget to Gov. Stein After a Year-Plus Impasse
3 North Carolina Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Two Cases on Whether Lawmakers Can Curb the Governor's Appointment Powers
3 North Carolina Nears Second Fiscal Year of 2025-27 Biennium Without an Enacted Two-Year Budget
3 Exceptional Drought Triggers Mandatory Water Restrictions Across North Carolina's Triangle