Research

What comparing the world’s press reveals

Several times a day, The Intelligence Bulletin takes one story moving through the global press and sets out how different countries are reporting it. Doing that continuously produces a record of how the world’s media actually behaves — who reports, who repeats, and where accounts diverge.

These are standing studies drawn from that record. Each states its data window and its limits, and where a study can be recomputed from the archive it is refreshed automatically as the record grows.

Source provenance · updated monthly
Who actually writes the world’s news?
Most outlets covering an international story are not reporting it themselves. We checked the provenance of every source we have published to find out who is — and how much of the world’s coverage traces back to a handful of agencies.
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Coverage · updated monthly
Whose press actually gets heard?
We compare national coverage every day. Counting which countries actually appear shows a distribution nothing like the world — and some of the reason is us.
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More studies follow as the record deepens. If you want to cite any of this, or need the underlying figures, get in touch.