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The Portland Press Herald is a morning daily newspaper with a website that serves southern Maine. The niche for the paper is local news of the greater metropolitan area around Portland. It also provides news about business, sports, opinion, and politics. It was founded in June 1862 by J. T. Gilman, Joseph B. Hall, and Newell A. The paper is currently owned by MaineToday Media Inc., headquartered in South Portland, Maine. According to SimilarWeb, the website has a total of 1.9 million visitors and is ranked 8092 among other media sources in the United States.
Portland is ranked 3,521 among other media sources and has an average of 2,083,000 monthly visits according to Similar Web.
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Portland has a Bias Score of -36% Somewhat Liberal which is based on a variety of factors including its policy and politician leanings, article ratings, and the use of biased language. Its Reliability is rated as Fair, and additional analytical insights are available in the other tabs.

  • Bias Rating

    -36% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability
    39% Reliable Fair
  • Policy Leanings

    8% Center

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    *Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

  • Politician Portrayal

    33% positive

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