8 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 08:59, updated 6 h ago
নাইজেরিয়া থেকে ইবোলা নিলে সুইজারল্যান্ডে এলেন এক নারী
Woman arrives in Switzerland after Ebola patient evacuated from Nigeria
Photo: Toronto Star
Neutral summary
A Swiss woman being treated for Ebola in Nigeria was medically evacuated with her husband, a Swiss diplomat, to Switzerland on Monday, officials said. Nigerian Health Minister Muhammad Pate approved the evacuation and said her condition had improved significantly, that she was stable and conscious, but that she could still be infectious. Mohamed Janabi, the World Health Organization's regional director for Africa, said the evacuation was arranged because the couple are Swiss citizens and that Switzerland will take over her treatment and monitor her husband. Nigeria will continue monitoring 52 other contacts, and Pate said containment measures remain in place. The woman, Ugandan-born, tested positive after returning to Abuja from Uganda on October 3; Switzerland's foreign ministry said she had not visited Congo. Swiss authorities said she was being treated at Geneva University Hospitals and her husband was isolated in Zurich.
Where accounts differ. South China Morning Post alone reports the Geneva and Zurich hospital locations, while Premium Times alone reports the 42-year-old age, 53 contacts, and the ARISE News account of the airport departure; the outlets otherwise agree, giving 52 versus 53 contacts.
Premium Times
Toronto Star
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
South China Morning Post
Written by AI from these outlets' articles: facts they report, claims attributed, numbers checked against the sources. It may still contain errors; read the originals.
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
CNNNeutral
Reports the evacuation factually in headline and narration, attributing details to Nigerian, Swiss, WHO and Africa CDC officials, with background context on the outbreak.
Eight of the eight outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.
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 8 of 8
Updated: Ebola: Nigeria’s index patient evacuated to Switzerland, health minister confirms
Premium Times
How the 1 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 voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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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 claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice· not scored
has heightened longstanding fears among health authorities
Characterizes health authorities' fears without citing a specific source, though it is mild and contextual.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 1
Every headline, in order
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Premium Times
Africa
First to report
Neutral
Updated: Ebola: Nigeria’s index patient evacuated to Switzerland, health minister confirms
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Toronto Star
US & Canada
Neutral
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The Washington Post
US & Canada
Neutral
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South China Morning Post
Asia Pacific
Neutral
Ebola patient evacuated from Nigeria to Switzerland
Headline changed; now
Ebola patient flown to Switzerland as African outbreak widens
27 Oct, 04:00 -
CNN
US & Canada
Analysed above
Neutral
First confirmed Ebola patient in Nigeria evacuated to Switzerland
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
নাইজেরিয়া থেকে ইবোলা নিলে সুইজারল্যান্ডে এলেন এক নারী
Headline changed; now
নাইজেরিয়া থেকে ইবোলা নিয়ে সুইজারল্যান্ডে এলেন এক নারী
27 Oct, 05:00
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.