10 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 03:20, updated 2 h ago
Officials from Makkah pact countries to meet Iranian officials on Monday, two sources say
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Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
The Straits TimesNeutral
Attributes the planned meeting to anonymous sources in headline and body, notes requests for comment, and adds one unattributed analytical line about the conflict's destabilising role.
Ten of the ten outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
The faults are local; the reporter's narration stays descriptive.
1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning
The same event, one framing
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 10 of 10
Top officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday, two sources say
Reuters
How the 3 was worked out
The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceOne isolated evaluative word in the reporter's voice. Evidence 11
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.0
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.0
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G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 11
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1OpinionatedReporter voice
increasingly destabilising element in the US-Israeli offensive against Iran, turning US ally Saudi Arabia into a pressure point
Analytical characterisation of the conflict's role stated in reporter voice without attribution.
2Emotional sensationalismReporter voice· not scored
continued unabated
Mild intensifier describing the fighting without quantification.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 1 G1 = 1, below 2: not band D Not band C or A: band B Band B: S ≤ 3 gives 3, 4 to 6 gives 4, 7 or more gives 5. Score 3
Every headline, in order
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Reuters
Europe
First to report
Neutral
Headline changed 2 times; now
Officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran
26 Oct, 08:53 -
The Straits Times
Asia Pacific
Analysed above
Neutral
Top officials from Mecca Pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran: Sources
Headline changed; now
Officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials on Oct 26, two sources say
26 Oct, 06:50 -
bdnews24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
Mecca pact countries’ top officials to meet Iranian officials
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Jamuna Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
ইরানের সঙ্গে বৈঠকে বসছেন মক্কা চুক্তির তিন দেশের শীর্ষ কর্মকর্তারা
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Daily Naya Diganta
Bangladesh
Neutral
About this method
Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.