NOW in SA media bias and reliability
NOW in SA is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is NOW in SA biased?
NOW in SA is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is NOW in SA left or right?
NOW in SA is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is NOW in SA reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for NOW in SA. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What NOW in SA has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with NOW in SA’s own report linked underneath.
Flydubai flight FZ1073 experienced a severe mid-air incident on September 30, 2026, when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar. The aircraft plummeted thousands of feet before passengers and crew disarmed the co-pilot, allowing a safe emergency landing.
NOW in SA reported it asFlydubai suspends Israel flights after FZ1073 incident (opens NOW in SA in a new tab)
The United States has imposed new visa restrictions on certain South African nationals, citing race-based discrimination and uncompensated land seizures. South Africa has rejected the US allegations, stating the measures are based on mischaracterised policies and fringe group information.
NOW in SA reported it asUS visa restrictions for South Africans: Who is affected? (opens NOW in SA in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed NOW in SA. We asked on 16 September 2026.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for NOW in SA.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- nowinsa.co.za
- Seen publishing on
- nowinsa.co.za
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 16 September 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. NOW in SA has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of NOW in SA: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 3 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 October 2026. Ratings pulled 16 September 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where NOW in SA publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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