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