How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 357 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

1. Democracy and elections
   4.2% of the news · usually 3.0% · 15 articles
2. Climate
   2.5% of the news · usually 3.1% · 9 articles
3. Jobs and work
   2.0% of the news · usually 0.7% · 2.6× usual · 7 articles
4. Health
   1.1% of the news · usually 1.2% · 4 articles
5. AI
   0.8% of the news · usually 0.2% · 5.6× usual · 3 articles
   • the old fairy tales as re-told by artificial intelligence.... (yourdemocracy.net.au)
6. Cost of living
   0.6% of the news · usually 0.2% · 2.5× usual · 2 articles
7. War and security
   0.3% of the news · usually 0.4% · 1 articles
8. Immigration
   0.0% of the news · usually 0.1% · 0 articles

How the news sounds

• Tone+0.6positive minus negative words per 100usually +0.7The GDELT Project
• Anxiety1.0× usual3.2 words per 1,000usually 3.2The GDELT Project
• Fear1.1× usual1.1 words per 1,000usually 1.0The GDELT Project
• Anger1.0× usual5.3 words per 1,000usually 5.3The GDELT Project
• Sadness1.0× usual7.7 words per 1,000usually 7.5The GDELT Project
• Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.5The GDELT Project
• Financial uncertainty1.1× usual7.7 words per 1,000usually 7.1The GDELT Project

News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.