Daily Northwestern media bias rating is Lean Left.

One of the nation’s most respected college newspapers, The Daily Northwestern has won dozens of regional and national awards. The Daily received the top award from the Illinois College Press Association in February 2012 and February 2014. It has also won the Pacemaker, long regarded as the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism, seven times in the past decade — most recently in 2011-12.

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The AllSides Media Bias RatingTM reflects the average judgment of the American people. We don't use a convoluted mathematical or artificial intelligence model, but instead have regular people representing the broad spectrum of Americans blindly rate the bias of articles. That produces a fair, verifiable bias rating.

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