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