Jagaran is a popular newspaper in Bangladesh, published from and headquartered in Bangladesh. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Jagaran’s media bias and Jagaran’s factual reporting on the basis of its coverage, language used, presidential endorsements, media reports, research and blind surveys. We have also commented on the left or right biasedness of the Jagaran along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Jagaranis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Jagaran, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Jagaran’s media bias. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media bias meter out of all the seven possible meters shown here.
Factual Reporting Summary
For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Jagaran, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Jagaran has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Jagaran. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. Jagaran Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Jagaran. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Jagaran language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Jagaran’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. Jagaran Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of Jagaran to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Jagaran towards any side of the spectrum.
2. Jagaran Endorsement of President
Endorsement of presidential candidates in elections comments strongly about a newspaper’s affiliation towards left or right. We will look out for candidates that Jagaran has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Jagaran’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of Jagaran
A political leader’s frequent criticism of Jagaran will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Jagaran in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on Jagaran
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Jagaran by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Jagaran is biased towards left, right or center.
5. Media Bias Articles from Research Papers, Institutions, etc.
Several reputed fact checking and media bias analytics organizations conduct thorough surveys and research to write about Jagaran media bias. To substantiate our claims about Jagaran’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of Jagaran
The audience of Jagaran also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Jagaran’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. Jagaran’s controversial statements and tweets
Several newspapers make controversial statements or tweets on social media that reflect their affinity towards any ideology. We will flip through Jagaran social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Jagaran media bias.
8. Popular editors of Jagaran
Any popular person or editor associated with the Jagaran will also speak a lot about Jagaran’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Jagaran that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. Jagaran CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if Jagaran CEO supports or sponsors any political party directly or indirectly. We will look for his tweets, statements, opinion pieces, and controversies that will take us towards Jagaran’s media bias.
B. Jagaran Factual Reporting Analysis
After Jagaran media bias, we will write about Jagaran’s factual reporting, to check whether Jagaran is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Jagaran’s factual accuracies and will comment if Jagaran has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. Jagaran’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for Jagaran’s previous history if it has ever intentionally or unintentionally published any fake news, false or misleading reports to influence audience. We will also write about false claims made by Jagaran in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Jagaran
Several fact-checking organizations including Politico, FactCheck, Snopes, Poynter, etc. conduct frequent fact-check on news articles published by newspapers. We will list down fact-checks that mentioned Jagaran to suggest if Jagaran has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of Jagaran
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Jagaran in their news stories to find out if Jagaran is factually reliable or not.
C. Jagaran Reliability Ratings by Fact-Checking Organizations
Several organizations across the globe independently conduct thorough research and studies on the pattern of news coverage by mainstream media. These websites study the articles published by the news media with the help of professionals and rate them on the basis of bias and reliability. Under this section, we will find out what other fact-checking organizations and media monitors have to say about Jagaran.
D. History of Jagaran
Jagaran is based out of Bangladesh and primarily published from Bangladesh . In this section, we will comment about the history of Jagaran including Jagaran founder, Jagaran publisher, Jagaran circulation and Jagaran headquarters.
E. Jagaran Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Jagaran’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Jagaran’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of Jagaran
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Jagaran enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Jagaran audience.
G. Jagaran Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of Jagaran on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Jagaran is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Jagaran is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.