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NPR

🇺🇸US · public broadcaster · independent · npr.org

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1970-02-26 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States no source on file
Funding	NPR is a nonprofit membership corporation (501(c)(3); EIN 52-0907625) owned/governed by its member stations, not by government. In its own words: "NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government" (grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies). About 30% of NPR's funding comes from programming fees paid mostly by its 246 member stations; those individual member stations receive on average about 13% of their own budgets from CPB. Remaining revenue is corporate sponsorship, donations/individual contributions, and endowment returns. Direct CPB appropriations to NPR itself ended in 2025 following a federal rescissions package/executive action. 2023 total revenue was reported at $318.7 million with an endowment of $342.3 million.
In its own words	Describes itself as: "NPR's Ethics Handbook states as its Independence principle: "To secure the public's trust, we must make it clear that our primary allegiance is to the public... Decisions about what we cover and how we do our work are made by our journalists, not by those who provide NPR with financial support" and "Under no circumstances do we skew our reports for personal gain, to help NPR's bottom line or to please those who fund us."."
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Asserted, not attributed

that the system wrongly flagged citizens is stated flat, with no source named for it — in 1 article

Asserted versus attributed

public disbelief stated as established, with nothing cited that measured it — in 1 article

Asserted versus attributed

Past threats of force are stated flat, as background — in 1 article

Asymmetric labelling

one side tagged by its patron, the other not — in 1 article

From 1144 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 5 misleading4 disputed10 unverified19 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
NPR member stations (collectively; approximately 246 station licensees, each with member voting rights)	company	not disclosed	yes	charter	—	link
NPR Board of Directors (12 Member Directors elected by member stations, 9 Public Directors, NPR Foundation Chair, President/CEO)	company	not disclosed	yes	charter	—	link
Corporation for Public Broadcasting / federal agencies (grants, non-equity)	company	1%	—	state funding	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Katherine Maher

President and CEO

Chief executive of NPR since March 2024; previously chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation (2016-2021).

Thomas "Tommy" Evans

Editor in Chief

Leads NPR's newsroom and sets editorial standards since September 2025; joined NPR in 2024 as Managing Editor, Editorial Review, after nearly eight years as Vice President and London Bureau Chief at CNN.

Journalists

Ayesha Rascoe

Host, Weekend Edition Sunday · politics · White House

Host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and weekend host of Up First; previously NPR White House correspondent covering three presidential administrations.

Mary Louise Kelly

Host, All Things Considered · national security · foreign affairs

Co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and host of the Sources & Methods podcast; previously NPR senior national security correspondent.

Nina Totenberg

Legal Affairs Correspondent · law · U.S. Supreme Court

NPR's legal affairs correspondent; reports air on All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition; long-tenured NPR journalist since the network's early years.

Steve Inskeep

Host, Morning Edition and Up First · politics · interviews

Host of NPR's Morning Edition and the Up First podcast since joining NPR in 2004; author of two nonfiction books.

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