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