4 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 12:00, updated 5 h ago
বাংলাদেশে ‘প্রযুক্তি ও উদ্ভাবনী নগরী’ প্রতিষ্ঠায় জাপানের সহযোগিতা চাইলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী
prime minister seeks Japanese help to build technology and innovation city in Bangladesh
Photo: Sarabangla.net
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
Sarabangla.netNeutral
Reports the Prime Minister's request to JICA in a descriptive headline and narration, relaying the government readout with attribution and no evaluative language.
Four of the four 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 4 of 4
বাংলাদেশে ‘প্রযুক্তি ও উদ্ভাবনী নগরী’ প্রতিষ্ঠায় জাপানের সহযোগিতা চাইলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী
Bangla Tribune
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
1Source selectionReporter voice· not scored
বৈঠকের বিষয়ে তথ্য জানান প্রধানমন্ত্রীর উপ-প্রেস সচিব শাহাদাৎ স্বাধীন।
The account relies solely on the government's press office, typical for a diplomatic readout and with no one accused.
2Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
ফলপ্রসূ বৈঠকের
Describing the earlier meeting as fruitful is mild evaluation, though it sits in a paraphrase of the PM's recollection.
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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Bangla Tribune
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
বাংলাদেশে ‘প্রযুক্তি ও উদ্ভাবনী নগরী’ প্রতিষ্ঠায় জাপানের সহযোগিতা চাইলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী
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Sarabangla.net
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
প্রযুক্তি ও উদ্ভাবনী নগরী প্রতিষ্ঠায় জাপানের সহযোগিতা চাইলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী
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Protidiner Sangbad
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.