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