Media Coverage Report · 2026-W36
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026
CurrentWire's media coverage report for Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026: 5,000 stories across 123 publications; 5% covered by 2+ independent publications; top category General. Computed from CurrentWire’s own story archive for the week of Monday, August 31 through Sunday, September 6, US Eastern time. See the methodology or the most covered stories right now.
- Stories archived
- 5,000
- Publications represented
- 123
- Covered by 2+ independent publications
- 5%
- Median publications per story
- 1
Most covered stories
Ranked by independent publications — the number of distinct publications CurrentWire had grouped into the story at its most recent refresh. Press releases are not listed here. For the live view, see Most covered right now.
“To 2nd / 3rd” is the time from CurrentWire first archiving the story to the refresh that first recorded two / three publications; a dash means the story already had that many when first seen, or its early history is no longer available.
Coverage velocity
How quickly coverage spread after CurrentWire first archived a story, measured from the story's recorded update history.
- Fastest to a 2nd publication
- ‘Big Mistakes’ Adds Poorna Jagannathan & Lorenzo De Moor As Recurring For Season 2 — 0 min after first archived
- Fastest to a 3rd publication
- Congress passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms — 1 min after first archived
- Biggest 24-hour pickup
- U.S. strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying warships were targeted with ballistic missiles — 1 → 9 publications within 2 h of first being archived
Coverage concentration
Share of the week's stories by how many independent publications reported them. One-publication stories are unconfirmed reports; the 'three or more' and 'four or more' rows overlap by design.
| Exactly one publication | 95% |
| Exactly two publications | 3.5% |
| Three or more publications | 1.4% |
| Four or more publications | 0.9% |
| Median publications per story | 1 |
| Mean publications per story | 1.1 |
Category mix
Share of the week's stories by section, including the low-confidence General bucket that the navigation never promotes.
| Segment | Stories | Share |
|---|---|---|
| General | 871 | 17.4% |
| Politics | 671 | 13.4% |
| World | 649 | 13% |
| Business | 618 | 12.4% |
| Sports | 604 | 12.1% |
| Culture | 595 | 11.9% |
| Technology | 364 | 7.3% |
| Science | 285 | 5.7% |
| Climate | 199 | 4% |
| Health | 144 | 2.9% |
Geography mix
Share of the week's stories by the geography CurrentWire assigned them.
| Segment | Stories | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International | 2,631 | 52.6% |
| United States | 1,733 | 34.7% |
| Canada | 478 | 9.6% |
| US & Canada | 107 | 2.1% |
| Global · North America | 51 | 1% |
Content-type mix
Share of the week's stories by detected content type. Untyped stories count as news; press releases are labelled and excluded from CurrentWire's curated modules, but they count here.
| Segment | Stories | Share |
|---|---|---|
| News | 4,723 | 94.5% |
| Press release | 218 | 4.4% |
| Opinion | 35 | 0.7% |
| Other (analysis, live coverage) | 24 | 0.5% |
Publisher participation
Publications by the number of distinct stories they appeared on this week.
| # | Publication | Stories joined |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Post | 418 |
| 2 | ABC News | 319 |
| 3 | Al Jazeera | 315 |
| 4 | CBS News | 279 |
| 5 | Phys.org | 279 |
| 6 | The Guardian | 258 |
| 7 | The Hill | 250 |
| 8 | Variety | 233 |
| 9 | Deadline | 225 |
| 10 | CBS Sports | 219 |
| 11 | Global News | 198 |
| 12 | France 24 | 189 |
| 13 | Fox News | 188 |
| 14 | Billboard | 173 |
| 15 | CNBC | 160 |
First observed by CurrentWire
On stories that at least two publications covered, the publication whose report carried the earliest publication time among those CurrentWire observed. This is what CurrentWire saw first — it is not a claim about who broke the story: feeds lag, and publications CurrentWire does not track are invisible to it.
| # | Publication | Stories first observed on |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABC News | 43 |
| 2 | Variety | 28 |
| 3 | PBS NewsHour | 18 |
| 4 | CBS News | 13 |
| 5 | NBC News | 13 |
| 6 | CBC News | 12 |
| 7 | Deadline | 12 |
| 8 | The Guardian | 11 |
| 9 | Global News | 10 |
| 10 | The Hill | 9 |
Publishers on multi-publication stories
Publications by how often they appeared on stories covered by two or more independent publications.
| # | Publication | Multi-publication stories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABC News | 93 |
| 2 | CBS News | 51 |
| 3 | PBS NewsHour | 49 |
| 4 | Variety | 47 |
| 5 | Deadline | 43 |
| 6 | Al Jazeera | 41 |
| 7 | The Guardian | 38 |
| 8 | CBC News | 34 |
| 9 | The Hill | 32 |
| 10 | BBC News | 29 |
| 11 | Global News | 29 |
| 12 | France 24 | 24 |
| 13 | NPR | 24 |
| 14 | Fox News | 23 |
| 15 | NBC News | 20 |
Week over week
Compared with Aug 24–30, 2026.
| Measure | Previous | This week | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stories archived | 5,000 | 5,000 | no change |
| Covered by 2+ publications | 4.6% | 5% | +0.4 pts |
| Median publications per story | 1 | 1 | no change |
| Top category | General | General | same |
How these numbers are made
Every figure is computed from CurrentWire’s own story archive. A week runs Monday through Sunday on the US-Eastern calendar, and a story belongs to the week in which CurrentWire first archived it; stories that later merged into another are counted once, under the survivor.
Independent publications is the number of distinct publications CurrentWire has recorded on a story at any point — its permanent coverage record, or the highest count recorded in its update history, whichever is higher. Publisher feeds rotate a story out of their windows within hours, so the count at the most recent refresh is often smaller than the count the story actually reached; the report uses the higher, permanent figure. It counts only the publications CurrentWire tracks, so it is a floor, not a census of the press.
Press releases are detected, labelled and excluded from CurrentWire’s curated modules. They are included in the totals and the content-type mix here, but not in the most-covered, velocity or first-observed tables.
First observed means the earliest publication time among the reports CurrentWire saw on a story. It is not the same as breaking the story. See the full methodology and the publications CurrentWire tracks.