McClatchyDC

About McClatchyDC's Bias Rating

McClatchyDC is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Center.

What a "Center" Rating Means

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Center either do not show much predictable media bias, display a balance of articles with left and right biases, or equally balance left and right perspectives.

Center doesn't mean better! A Center media bias rating does not necessarily mean a source is totally unbiased, neutral, perfectly reasonable, or credible, just as Left and Right don't necessarily mean extreme, wrong, unreasonable, or not credible. AllSides encourages people to read outlets across the political spectrum.

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McClatchyDC is the Washington-based news bureau of The McClatchy Company. McClatchyDC offers original reporting on political news, with a focus on the White House, Congress and policy initiatives. Its initial AllSides Media Bias Rating™ is Center. The McClatchy Company is a major news publishing company that operates 29 daily newspapers nationwide. It began in 1857 as a small newspaper in Sacramento founded by Native American writer Rollin Ridge. Since 1857, its journalists have won nine Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for coverage of the Panama Papers. McClatchyDC began in 2006 after the company acquired Knight Ridder, at the time the country's second-largest newspaper publisher.

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As of April 2024, people have voted on the AllSides Media Bias Rating for McClatchyDC. On average, those who disagree with our rating think this source has a Lean Left bias.

As of April 2024, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Center rating for McClatchyDC. If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase.