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