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