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