Red Sea Shipping

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 4.5 anxiety · 21.7 anger · 8.3 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-19). Tone split: 100% of articles read distinctly negative, 0% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

• Yemen (103)
• Saudi Arabia (99)
• Djibouti (93)
• Iran (63)
• United States (29)
• Israel (27)
• United Kingdom (15)
• Egypt (14)

Countries where Red Sea Shipping coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage -76.4%, reader interest -18.9%.

Top recent articles

1. Yemeni gov warns Iranian-backed Houthis plan to seize Red Sea strait — clevelandjewishnews.com
2. Yemeni gov warns Iranian-backed Houthis plan to seize Red Sea strait — jns.org
3. Yemen govt warns Houthis plan to turn Bab Al-Mandab into 'Red Sea's Strait of Hormuz' — arabnews.com
4. Bodies of 4 sailors killed in Houthi Red Sea attack flown to Jeddah — arabnews.com
5. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wcti12.com
6. Redding Chico Eureka — krcrtv.com
7. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — komonews.com
8. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — fox17.com
9. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — kfdm.com
10. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wpde.com
11. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — news4sanantonio.com
12. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — abc6onyourside.com
13. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wjactv.com
14. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wchstv.com
15. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — foxreno.com
16. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wjla.com
17. Cargo Ship Destroyed in New Attack Off Yemen — gcaptain.com
18. Drei Tote nach Houthi - Angriffen im Jemen — vol.at
19. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — katv.com
20. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — turnto10.com
21. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wwmt.com
22. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — foxbaltimore.com
23. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wsbt.com
24. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — nbcmontana.com
25. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — news3lv.com
26. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — katu.com
27. Kreise : Drei Tote nach Huthi - Angriffen im Jemen — finanznachrichten.de
28. Kreise : Drei Tote nach Huthi - Angriffen im Jemen — finanzen.net
29. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — fox23.com
30. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — cbs12.com
31. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — ktul.com
32. UK authorities : Vessel in Strait of Hormuz hit by projectile , one casualty — wlos.com
33. Yemen's Houthis Claim Another Attack on Saudi Ship in Red Sea — democracynow.org
34. Did Houthi missiles hit Saudi vessels in the Red Sea — news.az
35. Ship attacked in Hormuz strait as Iran throttles traffic through key waterway — wgauradio.com
36. US , Iran trade claims as Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted — tradearabia.com
37. 霍尔木兹危急 ！ 伊朗准备精准打击破封锁 ， 特朗普放话要炸阿曼 ， 油价刷新近三周高点 _ 国际原油市场 _ 黄金网 _ 中金在线 — gold.cnfol.com
38. Trump threatens Oman as it works with Iran on Strait of Hormuz deal — business-standard.com
39. Trump threatens Oman as it works with Iran on a Strait of Hormuz deal , and other Middle East news — niagarafallsreview.ca
40. Trump threatens Oman as it works with Iran on a Strait of Hormuz deal , and other Middle East news — stcatharinesstandard.ca

Headlines link to the original publishers. Geotone indexes coverage metadata only and never reproduces article text.

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• The photo shows Yemeni Huthi rebels' attack in the Red Sea.
  FalseAFP Fact Check · 2024-02-15
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  FalseAFP Fact Check · 2024-02-09
• Photo shows Red Sea attack
  Altered imageAFP Fact Check · 2024-02-06

Via the Google Fact Check Tools API; ratings are the fact-checkers' own.

Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Red Sea Shipping receiving right now?

As of August 19, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.001% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 4 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Red Sea Shipping increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is down 76.4% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Red Sea Shipping?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -4.07, which reads as negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.