State / loyalist
estimate · not a score
IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency)
🇮🇷IR ·
state agency · state-controlled
· irna.ir
| Spectrum |
Left
Centre-left
Centre
Centre-right
Right
State / loyalist
An estimate, not a score.
|
|---|---|
| Founded | 1934-11-13 — founding of the agency's predecessor, Pars News Agency; renamed Islamic Republic News Agency after the 1979 revolution (Wikipedia infobox lists 'Pars News Agency (1934–1981)' as the former name period) · source |
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran · source |
| Funding | |
| Reach | Wikipedia states the agency operates roughly 60 offices inside Iran and about 30 more abroad. |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
A contested word in the headline
"illegal" is a Chinese spokesperson's characterisation, carried unmarked in the headline — in 1 article
A contested word taken as the report's own
"illegal" appears in the headline without quotation marks or attribution to the speaker — in 1 article
Acted upon, never acting
police are named as acting; whoever hoarded a billion toman of staples is not named at all — in 1 article
Actor label
The Houthi-run authority is called Yemen's transport ministry. — in 1 article
From 15038 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
3 misleading6 disputed27 unverified18 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Islamic Republic of Iran (the state) | state body | not disclosed | yes | state funding | — | link |
| Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Islamic Republic of Iran) | state body | not disclosed | yes | state funding | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Managing Director
Journalists
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
byline
Covers
What we hold from them
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Al-Monitor: Iran hit "more than a dozen" ships. An-Nahar names five Iranian tankers destroyed by US Central Command
— read, nothing on this event
LBCI and An-Nahar lead on "hundreds detained"; Al-Monitor on operations "increasingly sustained and entrenched"
— read, nothing on this event