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Roanoke Times
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Roanoke Times is the main newspaper in Southern Virginia, based in Roanoke Virginia. Its niche is news on local events. The paper also covers national and world news, crime, education, politics and technology. Most of the local news covered by the paper have gained national media exposure for example; the April 16, 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech. Its first publication was in 1886, and was originally owned by M.H Claytor. However, it is currently owned by Lee Enterprises. According to Similar Web, roanoke.com has 1.1 million average visits.

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Our A.I. media bias rating of Roanoke Times shows what policies Roanoke Times supports and opposes including Roanoke Times's conservative and liberal leanings based on analysis of three hundred of articles scanned daily using the latest data science and artificial intelligence technologies.
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.

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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.

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The Analyst Bias Score is 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.
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News Source Ranking
Roanoke Times is ranked 4,054 among other media sources and has an average of 1,006,000 monthly visits according to Similar Web.
At Biasly, we rate political news articles from Roanoke Times using our Bias Meter technology to provide readers better insight into the conservative and liberal leanings present in today’s media. Here is a list of biases found in articles, political policies, and politician biases from Roanoke Times:

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