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