Meet the candidates: US House District 7 Republican primary

Yahoo News republishes an article identified as originating with Wilmington StarNews, an established local newspaper. The named reporter and explicit attribution support transparency, though the page itself provides little information about corrections or editorial processes.

• ▸Source type — Yahoo News is recorded as a national news publisher, while the reporting is attributed to an established local newspaper.
• ▸Author attribution — The article names Bob Liepa and identifies his StarNews reporting role.
• ▸Transparency — A footer identifies Wilmington StarNews as the article's original publisher.

The guide gives both candidates space to answer the same questions, but relies on their own statements and offers little independent verification, context or challenge to their claims.

The guide gives both candidates comparable opportunities to answer the same questions, but does not independently test their claims or add outside perspectives.

• ▸Source diversity — Both candidates' answers are included across the same issue areas.
• ▸Counterarguments presented — The candidates' views appear side by side, but neither directly responds to or tests the other's claims.
• ▸Omitted context — The guide provides little outside context or fact-checking for claims made in the answers.
• ▸Loaded language — The article's own framing is largely neutral.

The article presents both candidates' responses in a question-and-answer format without a discernible partisan framing or evaluative language.

• ▸Framing — Both candidates answer the same set of questions about national and district issues.
• ▸Language tone — The article uses straightforward, non-evaluative language to introduce the responses.
• ▸Source selection — The candidates provide the views presented, with no additional commentary steering the reader toward either one.