From [1]:

'According to the 2014 Pew Research Study, Where News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum, the majority of The Economist readers hold political values to the left-of-center. Seventeen percent of The Economist's audience is conservative (compared with 26% of all respondents to the survey).'

Interestingly, I've seen far worse online and printed 'news' which have an unashamedly leaned bias when they do their reporting. But looking at content from FT.com and The Economist, they show that they have highly factual content in their business section at least and both seem to be graded as 'least biased' with high evidence based reporting [0][1].

I'd pretty much rather subscribe to such content than to read clearly biased free online 'opinionated' news junk littered with ads on my browser.

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/ [1] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/economist