{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-10-01","scope":"global","date":"2026-10-01","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, October 1, 2026: coverage of Israel–Iran Confrontation is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for October 1, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Israel–Iran Confrontation](https://geotone.news/topics/israel-iran) is running 7.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.014% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Energy Security](https://geotone.news/topics/energy-security) is running 2.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.037% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) is running 2.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.006% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession) rose 438.1% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Syria Transition](https://geotone.news/topics/syria-transition) rose 421.6% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Myanmar Civil War](https://geotone.news/topics/myanmar-civil-war) rose 330.8% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism) rose 315.0% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) rose 304.8% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism): 0.202% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.104% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.058% of global coverage.\n\n- [Energy Security](https://geotone.news/topics/energy-security): 0.037% of global coverage.\n\n- [Coups & Power Grabs](https://geotone.news/topics/coups): 0.02% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -6.59.\n\n- [Liberia](https://geotone.news/countries/lr): average tone -6.17.\n\n- [Republic of the Congo](https://geotone.news/countries/cg): average tone -5.47.\n\n- [Equatorial Guinea](https://geotone.news/countries/gq): average tone -5.21.\n\n- [Ghana](https://geotone.news/countries/gh): average tone -4.62.\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":"2026-10-01T06:01:03.714Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:20:58.123Z"}}