Is Daily Mirror a reliable source?
This is how independent third parties assess the credibility and media bias of this source.
OVERALL RATING:29 +, 78 -
Daily Mirror scores a total of 29 Plus Points and 78 Minus Points in our evaluation of journalistic quality.
This corresponds to a score of 29* resp. the grade D− (poor).
*: (29 + 5 BP) * 100 / (29 + 5 BP + 78 + 5 BP)
This corresponds to a score of 29* resp. the grade D− (poor).
| Grade | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| very good | A+ | > 89 |
| A | 89 - 84 | |
| A− | 83 - 79 | |
| good | B+ | 78 - 74 |
| B | 73 - 67 | |
| B− | 66 - 62 | |
| satisfactory | C+ | 61 - 56 |
| C | 55 - 49 | |
| C− | 48 - 44 | |
| sufficient | D+ | 43 - 39 |
| D | 38 - 32 | |
| poor | D− | 31 - 26 |
| insufficient | F | < 26 |
Grade composition
The overall rating is made up of the following individual ratings from independent third parties:
Press Council Rulings29 -
Press councils are national institutions of media self-regulation. Press councils have their own defined press code. Reprimands are issued in the event of a violation of the press code (e.g. for truthfulness, diligence, sensationalism, separation of advertising and editorial, personal rights). For each reprimand issued by a national press council, a source receives one minus point.
- "00042-20 McAnena v mirror.co.uk"
- "00231-20 Sharp v mirror.co.uk"
- "00505-22 Various v mirror.co.uk"
- "01444-18 The Department of Health and Social Care v Daily Mirror"
- "02581-20 Tarman v mirror.co.uk"
- "02862-21 Castleton Farm v Daily Mirror"
- "03125-18 Fletcher v mirror.co.uk"
- "03364-18 Bhardwaj v mirror.co.uk"
- "04343-18 Chapman v Daily Mirror"
- "05462-24 Wallace and Parsons v mirror.co.uk"
- "05869-19 Begum V The Daily Mirror"
- "Decision of the Complaints Committee 07056-18 A woman v mirror.co.uk"
- "07306-16 Robertson v mirror.co.uk"
- "08086-19 ESE Group and EVO Energy Solutions v Daily Mirror"
- "10329-22 Gomersall v mirror.co.uk"
- "11343-20 A man v mirror.co.uk"
- "11817-20 Sharp v mirror.co.uk"
- "11993-21 Brews v mirror.co.uk"
- "12114-20 British Fur Trade Association v Daily Mirror"
- "12281-15 Nartey v mirror.co.uk"
- "16958-23 A man v mirror.co.uk"
- "18712-17 Purdy v mirror.co.uk"
- "19582-23 Understanding Animal Research v Daily Mirror"
- "20130-23 Rothon v mirror.co.uk"
- "21911-23 Evans vs mirror.co.uk"
- "22227-22 Hancock v Daily Mirror"
- "22282-23 Sawyer v mirror.co.uk"
- "28823-20 Amet v mirror.co.uk"
- "29183-20 Abassi v Daily Mirror"
IPSO (UK)
Media Bias/Fact Check9 +, 11 -
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American fact-checking website founded in 2015. It uses a 0-10 scale to rate sites on two areas: bias and factual accuracy. A source rated by MBFC with minimal bias gets 10 plus points. Maximum bias gets 10 minus points. The same principle applies to factual accuracy.
- "Center-Left"
Bias Rating
- "Mixed"
Factual Reporting
Ad Fontes Media7 +, 13 -
Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a media watchdog organization based in Colorado that is best known for its Media Bias Chart, which ranks media sources based on political bias and reliability. We combine their ratings of individual articles and episodes to create a weighted average, with low-rated items increasingly weighted higher.
- "Very low"
Reliability (Weighted Average)
- "Low Bias"
Bias (Weighted Average)
Fact Checkers16 -
We primarily use fact-checkers affiliated with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). We have linked to the International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers' code of principles in the headline. For each failed fact-checker there is one minus point.
- "Fact-check: Russian convoy north of St Petersburg was not carrying Iskander missiles"
- "Child self-harm numbers in the Guardian, Mirror and Independent don’t reflect survey’s actual findings"
- "How many retail jobs have been lost this year?"
- "Poverty hasn’t skyrocketed in the UK"
- "Data from Barnardo’s doesn’t show the number of children needing foster care has grown 44%"
- "Think tank did not say GDP per capita will fall by 7% under Boris Johnson’s deal"
- "Study doesn’t show that children are ‘silent super-spreaders’ of coronavirus – Full Fact"
- "There's no evidence that the 2019 coronavirus originated in a Chinese government laboratory – Full Fact"
- "There is no proof you’re more likely to get Covid-19 if you’re tall – Full Fact"
- "Independent SAGE’s estimated death rate is too high – Full Fact"
- "Mirror claims NHS staff work 11 hours unpaid overtime on average but it’s probably more like two hours"
- "Mirror wrong to say catching Covid in warm weather cuts risk of long Covid"
- "The Royal College of Nursing hasn’t told nurses to call women by gender-neutral terms"
- "Daily Mirror incorrectly reports the results of statins and blood pressure drugs study."
- "What payouts do ministers receive when they leave office? – Full Fact"
- "Higher number of reported Covid-19 deaths down to backlog – Full Fact"
Journalism Awards10 +
Journalism prizes are awards for excellent journalistic work in the period covered by the call for entries, which is usually one or two years. Sources receive one plus point for each journalistic award won that we track. We currently track up to three prestigious awards per country.
- "Campaign of the Year: Martyn Halle (Sunday People): His campaign exposed serious failings at North Middlesex Hospital and continued until the problems were addressed."
- "Scoop of the Year: Nick Dorman (The Sunday Mirror): His thoroughly supported investigation exposed hypocrisy involving Labour MP Keith Vaz and prostitutes in his flat."
- "Features Journalism: Tom Parry (The Daily Mirror): His compassionate, skilful reporting brought attention to overlooked issues, including the forgotten famine in Somalia."
- "Campaign of the Year: Fiona Duffy, Louie Smith (Daily Mirror): For persistent campaigning that secured Helen’s Law, denying parole to killers who refuse to disclose victims’ burial locations."
- "Science Journalism: Nada Farhoud (Daily Mirror): For bringing science stories to a mass audience through well-written, firsthand investigations that earned prominent newspaper coverage."
- "Arts and Entertainment: Tom Bryant (Daily Mirror): For revelatory and impactful showbusiness stories that raised important social issues and prompted action."
- "Online Video Journalism: Tom Pettifor, Matthew Young, Daniel Dove (Daily Mirror): Their compelling video report revealed persuasive new evidence in one of Britain’s most prominent unsolved murders."
- "Scoop of the Year: Pippa Crerar, Jeremy Armstrong (Daily Mirror): The reports revealed Dominic Cummings’s lockdown breaches and became a defining, widely read story of the pandemic."
- "Journalist of the Year: Pippa Crerar (The Mirror): She held political leaders accountable by breaking and developing major Partygate revelations despite repeated denials."
- "Business, Finance and Economics Journalism: Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott, George Willoughby, Katie Tarrant, Steven Grandison, Geoff Atkinson, Sandy Smith, Alistair Jackson, Geraldine McKelvie, Matt Bardo, Sarah Wilson, Kate Mead, Fred Atkinson, Alex Warman, Nick Sommerlad (Mirror): The team thoroughly revealed the property empires and secret millions associated with King Charles and Prince William."
British Journalism Awards
Studies2 +, 8 -
Most scientific publications, though not all, rely on some form of peer review or editorial review to qualify texts for publication. Sources mentioned in studies which rate media quality and/or reliability receive between 10 plus and 10 minus points.
- "The Mirror 4.86/10 Points (Average from Accuracy: 4.91/10 Points + 7 more quality-related ratings)"
European Media Systems Survey 2013
Wikipedia1 +, 1 -
Wikipedia’s reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s. However, various studies and media reports have noted improvements over time, and in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it was more often praised.
In the scoring model, any positive mention of a source’s credibility or quality in a Wikipedia extract receives a plus point—while negative mentions are treated as minus points.
- "The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper."
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