Invididual reporters tend to be liberal, no doubt. It's a "searching for truth" thingie and an idealism born of youth. However, the organizations reporters work for tend to be conservative because they're generally a chain and are profit-driven, as they have to be.
Where that conflicts is when a story might affect the bottom line. Years ago I worked for a small daily paper and we broke a story about a local car dealership rolling back the odometers on used cars.
We did a great story, presented it to the Editor, he showed it to the GM (actually publisher) who called the owner of the car lot as a courtesy. The owner of the car lot said "run it if you want, but that double page full color ad we run every Sunday will get canceled."
Story never ran because of economic considerations. I was pissed but understood the GM was running a business, we were a chain and he had to answer to a higher authority if we didn't make money.
I quit shortly thereafter but it had nothing to do with being censored- it had to do with the need to make more money, just like them. It's all about the bucks, ultimately. For everything.