NZ Herald

The NZ Herald is a prominent news organization in New Zealand with a legacy dating back to 1863. The newspaper is committed to reporting the most important stories across breaking news, investigations, politics, sport, business, entertainment, lifestyle and more. The NZ Herald website reaches over 2 million Kiwis monthly while the print version has the most-popular daily and weekend newspapers in New Zealand with 53% more readers than its nearest competitor. The newspaper is owned by NZME which also owns regional daily newspapers, a stable of community titles, leading business website businessdesk.co.nz and several radio brands including Newstalk ZB, ZM, The Hits and Coast. NZME's total audience is 3.5 million people across radio, print and online in radio and readership according to GFK Commercial Radio and Nielsen Readership surveys.

100%

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

Bias

100%

Examples:

  • The NZ Herald promotes freedom of expression, speech and press. It is critical that they differentiate clearly between news and opinion.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • NZME owns the leading business website businessdesk.co.nz, and several radio brands including Newstalk ZB, ZM, The Hits and Coast.

Contradictions

75%

Examples:

  • Anne Hathaway has been sober for over five years.
  • The band Tinariwen is coming to New Zealand

Deceptions

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

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