News Mood
How the News Reads Today
From −1 (grim) to +1 (hopeful), across politics, security, the economy and the world in the last 24 hours.
−0.28
Negative
590 stories · yesterday −0.33
GrimMixedHopeful
Last 30 Days
2026-08-29Today
By Topic
By Side of the Press
The same day’s events, as each side’s articles read. Scored without knowing who published them.
How It Is Measured
Each article is judged for how good or bad the news it reports is, on a five-step scale from catastrophe to relief, from our English summary and without the newsroom’s name. That becomes −1 to +1. Articles about the same event are averaged into one story, and each story counts in proportion to how many newsrooms covered it, so one event reported thirty times is one voice. Sport, weather and culture are left out. The approach follows the San Francisco Fed’s Daily News Sentiment Index.