Stanley Reed

Stanley Reed is an energy and business reporter for The New York Times, covering environmental issues as well. Based in London since 1996, he has reported from around 40 countries during his more than four-decade journalism career. Reed has worked at BusinessWeek magazine and is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Business School. He focuses on the oil and gas industries, alternative energy sources like offshore wind, nuclear fusion, and hydrogen. Reed's beat also includes the geopolitical implications of energy shifts, such as those resulting from the war in Ukraine.

Biography:  https://www.nytimes.com/by/stanley-reed

79%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

88%

Examples:

  • Suspicion has centered on Yemen's Houthi rebels
  • The author claims 'suspicion has centered on Yemen's Houthi rebels', but there is no evidence presented to support this claim.

Conflicts of Interest

75%

Examples:

  • I have worked as a journalist for more than four decades, starting from Cairo. I spent a lot of my career at BusinessWeek magazine where, among other things, I edited the international politics column and was London bureau chief and also covered the Middle East.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Damage to submarine cables in the Red Sea is disrupting telecommunications networks and forcing providers to reroute as much as a quarter of traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East, including internet traffic
  • HGC Global Communications estimates that 25% of traffic between Asia and Europe as well the Middle East has been impacted by the cable damage
  • International benchmark Brent has been in the $81-$83 per barrel range for the past month and has not reached $100 per barrel despite rising non-OPEC production, higher interest rates, and concerns about demand due to slower economic growth in Europe and China.
  • They are expected to maintain production cuts amid signs of a softening market.

Deceptions

75%

Examples:

  • The article implies that all communications traffic between Europe and Asia goes through these cables when in fact only over 90% of it does.
  • The author claims 'suspicion has centered on Yemen's Houthi rebels', but there is no evidence presented to support this claim.

Recent Articles

OPEC and Allies Poised to Extend Production Cuts Amid Market Uncertainty

OPEC and Allies Poised to Extend Production Cuts Amid Market Uncertainty

Broke On: Sunday, 02 June 2024 OPEC and allies, including Russia, are set to decide on extending production cuts of 2 million barrels per day during an online meeting on June 5. The current cuts help shore up prices in the second half of the year and potentially into 2025. Extending cuts could impact countries like Iraq and UAE, while a softening market and growing output from countries outside OPEC Plus pressures producers to maintain prices.
Red Sea Cables Damaged, Disrupting Telecommunications Networks in Asia, Europe and Middle East

Red Sea Cables Damaged, Disrupting Telecommunications Networks in Asia, Europe and Middle East

Broke On: Wednesday, 06 March 2024 Red Sea cables damaged, disrupting telecommunications networks and forcing providers to reroute up to a quarter of traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Acquiring permits from Yemeni maritime authority could take eight weeks.