Izvestia is a popular newspaper in Russia, published from and headquartered in Russia. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Izvestia’s media bias and Izvestia’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 Izvestia along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Izvestiais Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Izvestia, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Izvestia’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 Izvestia, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Izvestia has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Izvestia. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. Izvestia Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Izvestia. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Izvestia language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Izvestia’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. Izvestia Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of Izvestia to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Izvestia towards any side of the spectrum.
2. Izvestia 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 Izvestia has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Izvestia’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of Izvestia
A political leader’s frequent criticism of Izvestia will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Izvestia in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on Izvestia
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Izvestia by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Izvestia 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 Izvestia media bias. To substantiate our claims about Izvestia’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of Izvestia
The audience of Izvestia also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Izvestia’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. Izvestia’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 Izvestia social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Izvestia media bias.
8. Popular editors of Izvestia
Any popular person or editor associated with the Izvestia will also speak a lot about Izvestia’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Izvestia that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. Izvestia CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if Izvestia 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 Izvestia’s media bias.
B. Izvestia Factual Reporting Analysis
After Izvestia media bias, we will write about Izvestia’s factual reporting, to check whether Izvestia is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Izvestia’s factual accuracies and will comment if Izvestia has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. Izvestia’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for Izvestia’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 Izvestia in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Izvestia
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 Izvestia to suggest if Izvestia has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of Izvestia
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Izvestia in their news stories to find out if Izvestia is factually reliable or not.
C. Izvestia 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 Izvestia.
D. History of Izvestia
Izvestia is based out of Russia and primarily published from Russia . In this section, we will comment about the history of Izvestia including Izvestia founder, Izvestia publisher, Izvestia circulation and Izvestia headquarters.
E. Izvestia Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Izvestia’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Izvestia’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of Izvestia
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Izvestia enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Izvestia audience.
G. Izvestia Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of Izvestia on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Izvestia is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Izvestia is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.