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Measuring Israel's share of the news against real-world data
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Israel vs : coverage vs , last 30 days
Solid: each country's share of the selected outlets' country mentions
that day.
Dashed: each country's .
Every country, last 30 days
Each country's share of mentions over the last 30 days,
against its .
Dashed line is what the benchmark would predict. Countries above it are "over-covered"
by this metric, countries below it are "under-covered".
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Methodology
Simple equally weighted formulas based on existing statistics or on common sense are often very good predictors of significant outcomes.
Front Page Jews aims to quantify how Israel's share of news coverage compares to its real-world significance. It measures each country's share of coverage in major news outlets against an equally weighted composite score based on its population, GDP and conflict deaths, and gives the option to view each metric on its own.
This formula is not meant to be perfect. News cycles follow events as they happen in a way that these statistics do not. But it provides a useful baseline. When a country consistently and significantly deviates from it, it's worth asking why.
The US and UK are left out of every chart and every total: the outlets are American and British, so most of their mentions of those two are home news, not foreign coverage.
Definitions
- Share of coverage
- Each article counts once toward the "total mentions" for every country it mentions. A country's share of coverage is the number of articles that mention it, divided by the total mentions.
- Composite score
- The equally weighted average of a country's shares of the total population, GDP and conflict deaths, as a percentage.
- Conflict deaths
- UCDP's count for the most recent 12 months it has data for (Sep 2025–Aug 2026).
- Israel
- Includes the West Bank and Gaza across all metrics. Different sources categorize them differently, so combining them keeps the comparison consistent.
Data sources
News coverage: GDELT, for major English-language outlets it tracks well
Population: World Bank
GDP: World Bank
Conflict deaths: UCDP