Observatory
Who talks about whom
Every day we count, across 3,000 outlets in 190 countries, how many articles each country’s press gives to each other country. This page reads that matrix for the last complete day against each press’s own habit over the 30 days before. It measures attention, not intent: a mention is one article naming the country once, whatever it says.
Most watched from abroad
The countries foreign presses wrote about most, with their share of the day’s foreign attention against their own 30-day mean.
- United States 5,517 mentions · 163 presses · 17% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.1 its usual share
- France 1,626 mentions · 123 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.0 its usual share
- China 1,541 mentions · 123 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.6 its usual share
- Russia 1,535 mentions · 101 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.8 its usual share
- Ukraine 1,400 mentions · 82 presses · 4% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.9 its usual share
- Iran 1,328 mentions · 106 presses · 4% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.2 its usual share
- United Kingdom 906 mentions · 114 presses · 3% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.0 its usual share
- Israel 791 mentions · 86 presses · 3% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.7 its usual share
- Spain 743 mentions · 91 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.9 its usual share
- India 724 mentions · 81 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.0 its usual share
- Germany 635 mentions · 78 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.9 its usual share
- Turkey 624 mentions · 92 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.9 its usual share
Unusual attention
Press→country pairs at least two standard deviations above their own 30-day mean, with ten mentions or more. A measure of where a press looked, not of why.
- Romania’s press on Hungary: 40 mentions, ×6.8 its usual
- Ghana’s press on Somalia: 16 mentions, ×7.7 its usual
- France’s press on Turkey: 23 mentions, ×5.8 its usual
- Vietnam’s press on Japan: 60 mentions, ×3.4 its usual
- India’s press on China: 40 mentions, ×2.5 its usual
- Pakistan’s press on Bangladesh: 19 mentions, ×2.6 its usual
- Russia’s press on United Arab Emirates: 78 mentions, ×4.3 its usual
- Australia’s press on United Kingdom: 37 mentions, ×2.9 its usual
- Brazil’s press on Philippines: 15 mentions, ×4.6 its usual
- Ghana’s press on Iran: 16 mentions, ×2.4 its usual
- Portugal’s press on Iran: 30 mentions, ×2.5 its usual
- Portugal’s press on China: 30 mentions, ×2.4 its usual
- United States’ press on South Korea: 19 mentions, ×3.1 its usual
- Italy’s press on China: 26 mentions, ×2.6 its usual
- Canada’s press on China: 18 mentions, ×2.8 its usual
What travelled this week
- Protests in France over cost of living 74 presses · 23 days · first seen in France’s press on 4 Oct 2026
- Gadi Eisenkot tasked to form Israeli government 71 presses · 18 days · first seen in Israel’s press on 22 Oct 2026
- Lula's political strategies against Trump 69 presses · 23 days · first seen in Portugal’s press on 4 Oct 2026
- Spain's Transport Minister resigns after train accidents 69 presses · 7 days · first seen in Spain’s press on 28 Oct 2026
- US midterm elections results analysis 65 presses · 8 days · first seen in Venezuela’s press on 30 Oct 2026
The matrix
Rows: the presses. Columns: the countries they mentioned most. Each cell: articles that day, shaded by the share of that press’s foreign attention the column took.
| Press | United States | France | China | Russia | Ukraine | Iran | United Kingdom | Israel | Spain | India | Germany | Turkey | United Arab Emirates | Palestinian Territories | Italy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 209 | 38 | 61 | · | 460 | 52 | 31 | 23 | 9 | 25 | 34 | 38 | 78 | 5 | 2 |
| Austria | 139 | 28 | 15 | 138 | 111 | 42 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 68 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 7 |
| Iran | 244 | 15 | 54 | 28 | 16 | · | 8 | 80 | · | 2 | 27 | 22 | 13 | 31 | 2 |
| Romania | 197 | 27 | 38 | 69 | 67 | 18 | 9 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 21 | · | 20 | 4 | 30 |
| Iraq | 94 | 12 | 22 | 91 | 17 | 91 | 30 | 20 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 10 | 27 | 20 |
| Argentina | 213 | 31 | 49 | 15 | 9 | 26 | 6 | 7 | 89 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 4 | · | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 101 | 41 | 44 | 37 | 23 | 49 | · | 14 | 15 | 30 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
| France | 145 | · | 47 | 41 | 36 | 17 | 19 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 21 |
| Pakistan | 70 | 17 | 14 | 8 | · | 31 | 37 | 5 | 1 | 200 | 1 | 3 | · | 3 | · |
| Ukraine | 92 | 10 | 6 | 202 | · | 15 | 11 | 6 | · | 1 | 13 | 5 | 25 | · | 4 |
| Italy | 95 | 64 | 26 | 42 | 36 | 24 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 17 | · |
| Turkey | 32 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 58 | 5 | 82 | 11 | · | 12 | · | 4 | 59 | 33 |
| Brazil | 171 | 33 | 25 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
| China | 195 | 15 | · | 14 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 8 | · |
| United States | · | 28 | 42 | 28 | 23 | 43 | 57 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 3 |
Counted at fetch time from the titles and descriptions of every article read, by the outlet’s country. Shares, not raw counts, when presses are compared: a press that publishes more mentions everyone more. Coverage of the local press, not public opinion and not truth. Data since 17 September 2026. Method →