Catherine Porter,

Catherine Porter is an international correspondent for The New York Times based in Paris. She has been a journalist for over a quarter-century and joined The Times in 2017 as the Canada bureau chief. Prior to her current role, she worked at Canada's largest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, as a columnist, feature writer, and environment reporter. She also served as a foreign correspondent in Haiti and published a book about her ties to the country called “A Girl Named Lovely.” In 2022, she was part of a team that won the George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigation of the assassination of Haiti's president. Porter is committed to fair, accurate, and empathetic reporting and holds herself to high journalistic standards.

Biography:  https://www.nytimes.com/by/catherine-porter

98%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

100%

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  • The author appears to maintain a neutral tone in their reporting without any clear signs of political affiliations or personal biases.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • No conflicts of interest have been identified.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • In one article, the author mentioned that approximately 300,000 people participated in protests across France. They also stated that the protests urged voters to block the far-right party from gaining a majority in upcoming parliament elections. However, last weekend President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Renew party was defeated by the far-right party of Marine Le Pen in European Union parliamentary elections. This could be seen as a contradiction since the protests were unsuccessful in preventing the far-right party from gaining power.

Deceptions

100%

Examples:

  • No deceptive practices have been identified.

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