16 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 13:21, updated 10 h ago
খায়েরুজ্জামান মজুমদার আরও এক বছরের জন্য অর্থসচিব
khairuzzaman majumder extended as finance secretary for one more year
Photo: The Financial Express
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
Prothom AloNeutral
Reports a contractual reappointment plainly, sourcing it to the ministry notification and the official himself, with descriptive career background and no evaluative language.
Sixteen of the sixteen 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 16 of 16
চুক্তিতে আরও ১ বছর অর্থ সচিব থাকছেন খায়েরুজ্জামান মজুমদার
Jago News 24
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
1Cherry pickingReporter voice· not scored
তিন আমলেই অর্থসচিবের দায়িত্ব পালন করা কর্মকর্তা
Factual note on continuity across governments; no evaluative framing, no criticism of the appointment.
2Mud and honeyReporter voice· not scored
প্রথম স্থান অর্জন করে
Detailed academic credentials are standard biographical context in an appointment report, not one-sided praise.
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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Jago News 24
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Bangladesh Journal
Bangladesh
Neutral
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bdnews24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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New Age
Bangladesh
Neutral
Khairuzzaman Mazumder reappointed finance secretary for 1 year
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Channel i
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Manab Zamin
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Prothom Alo
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
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Kaler Kantho
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Desh Rupantor
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.