Centre-left estimate · not a score

Shargh

🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent · sharghdaily.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	2003-08-24 — first issue of the newspaper Shargh · source
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran (Fatemi Square / میدان فاطمی) · source
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

A count with its base

both days given, and the data called preliminary — in 1 article

Actor named as a state

the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' — in 1 article

A different actor does the asking

Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. — in 1 article

'aggression' in the narration

The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. — in 1 article

From 10245 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 1 false6 misleading23 disputed60 unverified25 true
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
Mehdi Rahmanian (مهدی رحمانیان)	person	not disclosed	yes	licence	—	link
Golriz Institute (گلریز)	company	not disclosed	—	licence	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Mehdi Rahmanian (مهدی رحمانیان)

Managing Director / License Holder (مدیرمسئول / صاحب امتیاز)

Iranian newspaper proprietor and journalist; managing director and license holder of Shargh since its founding in 2003.

Shahrzad Hamati

Editor-in-Chief (سردبیر)

Journalists

Abbas Abdi

Columnist · politics · society

Iranian journalist, sociologist and political activist; contributes opinion columns to Shargh; formerly a member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front.

Maghsoud Farasatkhah

Columnist · society

Iranian sociologist specializing in sociology of religion and higher education; contributes columns to Shargh.

Mohammad Javad Gholamreza Kashi

Columnist · politics · society

Iranian sociologist at Allameh Tabataba'i University; contributes columns to Shargh.

Ahmad Gholami

Columnist / writer (former editor-in-chief) · media · society

Iranian writer and journalist; previously served as editor-in-chief of Shargh; currently contributes as a columnist.

Pouria Nazemi

Science journalist / columnist · technology

Iranian science journalist and blogger; contributes science columns to Shargh.