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