Leans left
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The American edition of the British newspaper, launched in 2011. The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust, a structure designed to guarantee editorial independence in perpetuity, and it has no proprietor to answer to.
Its funding model, free to read and supported by voluntary reader contributions, is admired by people who dislike paywalls on public-interest journalism. Critics argue that its explicitly left-of-center editorial line, normal in the British press where papers openly declare allegiance, sits awkwardly with American expectations of neutral reporting.