{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-09-01","scope":"global","date":"2026-09-01","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, September 1, 2026: coverage of Food Security is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for September 1, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Food Security](https://geotone.news/topics/food-security) is running 53.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.221% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Arctic Security](https://geotone.news/topics/arctic-security) is running 12.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.027% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Taiwan Strait](https://geotone.news/topics/taiwan-strait) is running 4.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.057% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Food Security](https://geotone.news/topics/food-security) rose 286.7% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Sahel Insurgency](https://geotone.news/topics/sahel-insurgency) rose 223.9% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Arctic Security](https://geotone.news/topics/arctic-security) rose 104.5% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato) rose 102.7% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [South China Sea](https://geotone.news/topics/south-china-sea) fell 89.6% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Food Security](https://geotone.news/topics/food-security): 0.221% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.099% of global coverage.\n\n- [Taiwan Strait](https://geotone.news/topics/taiwan-strait): 0.057% of global coverage.\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.044% of global coverage.\n\n- [Disinformation](https://geotone.news/topics/disinformation): 0.036% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://geotone.news/countries/cd): average tone -8.34.\n\n- [Gabon](https://geotone.news/countries/ga): average tone -5.76.\n\n- [Liberia](https://geotone.news/countries/lr): average tone -5.49.\n\n- [Equatorial Guinea](https://geotone.news/countries/gq): average tone -5.13.\n\n- [Sierra Leone](https://geotone.news/countries/sl): average tone -4.46.\n\n\n*Every figure above is computed from GDELT coverage data as described in the [methodology](https://geotone.news/methodology). Derived data is CC BY 4.0 — cite \"Geotone / GDELT\".*","generator":"template","publishedAt":"2026-09-01T06:00:23.494Z"}],"meta":{"license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Geotone / GDELT","source":"https://geotone.news","docs":"https://geotone.news/api-docs","generated":"2026-10-04T10:21:07.121Z"}}