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 7,725 mentions · 164 presses · 17% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.1 its usual share
- France 2,354 mentions · 124 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.1 its usual share
- Russia 2,237 mentions · 103 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.8 its usual share
- Iran 2,157 mentions · 108 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.4 its usual share
- China 2,156 mentions · 124 presses · 5% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.7 its usual share
- Ukraine 1,972 mentions · 83 presses · 4% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.9 its usual share
- United Kingdom 1,241 mentions · 116 presses · 3% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.9 its usual share
- Israel 1,212 mentions · 86 presses · 3% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.8 its usual share
- Spain 1,044 mentions · 92 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.9 its usual share
- Germany 915 mentions · 84 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×1.0 its usual share
- Turkey 912 mentions · 95 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×2.0 its usual share
- India 834 mentions · 83 presses · 2% of the day’s foreign attention · ×0.8 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.
- France’s press on Turkey: 40 mentions, ×10.2 its usual
- Romania’s press on Hungary: 51 mentions, ×8.6 its usual
- Vietnam’s press on Japan: 92 mentions, ×5.1 its usual
- Canada’s press on China: 34 mentions, ×5.3 its usual
- Senegal’s press on Egypt: 22 mentions, ×5.9 its usual
- India’s press on China: 55 mentions, ×3.5 its usual
- United States’ press on South Korea: 34 mentions, ×5.6 its usual
- Russia’s press on United Arab Emirates: 123 mentions, ×6.7 its usual
- Ghana’s press on Somalia: 19 mentions, ×9.2 its usual
- Sweden’s press on United Arab Emirates: 18 mentions, ×3.6 its usual
- Pakistan’s press on Bangladesh: 27 mentions, ×3.7 its usual
- Vatican City’s press on Argentina: 55 mentions, ×11.3 its usual
- Italy’s press on China: 44 mentions, ×4.4 its usual
- Portugal’s press on China: 45 mentions, ×3.6 its usual
- Portugal’s press on Iran: 42 mentions, ×3.5 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 72 presses · 19 days · first seen in Israel’s press on 22 Oct 2026
- Lula's political strategies against Trump 69 presses · 24 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 | Russia | Iran | China | Ukraine | United Kingdom | Israel | Spain | Germany | Turkey | India | United Arab Emirates | Palestinian Territories | Italy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 325 | 54 | · | 88 | 76 | 642 | 49 | 36 | 12 | 49 | 48 | 43 | 123 | 11 | 8 |
| Iran | 382 | 29 | 42 | · | 72 | 24 | 18 | 148 | · | 40 | 28 | 3 | 19 | 55 | 5 |
| Ukraine | 162 | 32 | 418 | 31 | 16 | · | 22 | 12 | · | 28 | 6 | 5 | 62 | · | 11 |
| Romania | 254 | 28 | 91 | 22 | 56 | 94 | 13 | 28 | 22 | 31 | · | 6 | 28 | 5 | 44 |
| United Kingdom | 166 | 74 | 48 | 122 | 73 | 33 | · | 22 | 19 | 12 | 31 | 33 | 12 | 24 | 15 |
| Austria | 167 | 31 | 147 | 49 | 15 | 120 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 75 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 8 |
| France | 221 | · | 62 | 37 | 69 | 56 | 27 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 32 |
| Turkey | 54 | 38 | 33 | 94 | 39 | 31 | 10 | 133 | 14 | 22 | · | 1 | 6 | 72 | 54 |
| Iraq | 132 | 13 | 91 | 114 | 26 | 17 | 35 | 26 | 7 | 28 | 38 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 20 |
| Italy | 138 | 91 | 64 | 38 | 44 | 54 | 3 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 22 | 14 | 19 | · |
| Argentina | 234 | 38 | 17 | 30 | 62 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 94 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 4 | · | 9 |
| United States | · | 43 | 41 | 81 | 90 | 36 | 82 | 29 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 19 | 3 |
| Pakistan | 94 | 21 | 9 | 43 | 22 | · | 51 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 200 | 1 | 4 | · |
| Germany | 120 | 40 | 51 | 44 | 38 | 53 | 13 | 12 | 1 | · | 17 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 3 |
| China | 222 | 24 | 26 | 19 | · | 7 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 8 | · |
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 →