MOM Armenia reports that News.am is owned by News AM LLC, solely owned by Armenika Kiviryan.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
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The News.am website is owned by “News AM” LLC, whose sole owner is Armenika Kiviryan.
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News.am
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Why this label
- Ownership and ties: 1 facts
- Independent monitoring: OSCE/ODIHR
- Word choice: 3 cases of loaded wording in 9 analysed articles
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What independent reports say
OSCE/ODIHR
ODIHR found that the news.am website, together with other named outlets, consistently portrayed the government and Civil Contract negatively while giving favourable coverage to selected opposition contestants.
OSCE/ODIHR · 2026-06-08 · p. 18 · Open the source
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By contrast, Kentron, H2 and Yerkir Media televisions, as well as the news.am and panorama websites consistently portrayed the government and the Civil Contract Party negatively, while providing favourable coverage to selected opposition contestants ODIHR found that news.am devoted 12-13 per cent of its coverage each to Strong Armenia and Armenia Alliance, mainly positively, and 21 per cent to Civil Contract, predominantly negative in tone.
OSCE/ODIHR · 2026-06-08 · p. 18 · Open the source
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Kentron devoted 24 per cent of its coverage to Prosperous Armenia, while Yerkir Media devoted 13 per cent to Armenia Alliance, and Panorama 20 per cent to Strong Armenia, mostly in a positive tone. H2 and news.am each devoted between 12 and 13 per cent of their coverage to Strong Armenia and Armenia Alliance each, mainly positively. The Civil Contract Party received 10 per cent of the coverage on Kentron, 13 per cent on Yerkir Media, 18 per cent on H2, 21 per cent on news.am and 24 per cent on Panorama, predominantly negative in tone. Other findings
This is a separate axis, not pro-government or opposition, and it does not affect the label.
DFRLab places News.am in its mainstream (not pro-Russian) corpus and reports that 2026 verbatim reproductions of Russian-origin, pro-Russian-cluster material were concentrated in three high-volume mainstream outlets, including news.am.
DFRLab (Atlantic Council) · 2026-08-24 · Open the source
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concentrated in a handful of high-volume mainstream outlets (1in, news.am, 168) Word choice in real news
9 articles analysed: 3 with loaded wording, 6 neutral.
What happenedEAEU report: suspending Armenia's membership could raise gas prices 69%
ԵԱՏՄ-ից դուրս գալու դեպքում Հայաստանի գազի ներմուծման արժեքը կաճի 69%-ով
Loaded word Describes the scenario as Armenia "leaving" the EAEU; the summary and outlets such as CivilNet and Armenpress speak of a possible suspension of membership.
OriginalWhat happenedGlobes: Elbit Systems to supply Azerbaijan with $235m in rockets
Իսրայելը 235 մլն դոլար արժողությամբ հրթիռներ և համազարկային կրակի ռեակտիվ համակարգեր կմատակարարի Ադրբեջանին․ Globes
Emphasis Names "Israel" as the supplier; the summary and Armenpress say the contract belongs to the Israeli company Elbit Systems.
OriginalWhat happenedPashinyan does not rule out snap elections over new Constitution
Արտահերթ ընտրությունների կգնանք, եթե չստացվի Աժ–ում նոր Սահմանադրությունն անցկացնել
Emphasis The headline states without attribution 'we will go to snap elections' if the Constitution does not pass, while Pashinyan's words, as quoted by Ararat News, present snap elections as one possible scenario.
OriginalEvery quote is checked: it appears word for word in its source. The highlighted words in the examples are taken unchanged from that outlet's own article.
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