France news API
Coverage about France from 1616 distinct publishers, in whatever language
it was reported. Pass country=FR to filter.
What coverage of France looks like
Coverage spans metropolitan France, North and West Africa and Canada. French-language reporting on African affairs is substantially deeper than anything available in English and is frequently the only detailed account.
The media landscape
National dailies with declared editorial positions, a strong regional press, and francophone African publishers that are separate newsrooms rather than bureaus. Public broadcasting carries substantial international coverage. The African titles are the most differentiated material available under this filter and the least visible without outlet scoping.
Querying this market
Scope by outlet when geography matters — a query about monetary policy reaches very different reporting from Paris and from Dakar.
GET /search?country=FR&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.
What catches people out
Accents are dropped inconsistently in headlines and almost always in slugs, so exact matching on proper nouns is unreliable. Geography is the larger issue: without an outlet constraint, coverage from Paris, Montreal, Dakar and Abidjan arrives in one stream, and those newsrooms are covering different events under the same language. Public-service broadcasting carries substantial international reporting that commercial outlets do not duplicate, so excluding it narrows coverage more than the outlet count suggests. August is a genuine publishing trough across the domestic press, and a year-over-year comparison spanning it will show a decline that reflects holidays rather than attention.
Recent coverage
Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
| Headline | Outlet |
|---|---|
| At least 18 people die in bid to reach Spanish enclave of Ceuta | maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk |
| Full list of Manchester Airport delays and cancellations today | theboltonnews.co.uk |
| 'She hadn't wanted to die': How Dublin resident was convicted of daughter's murder after family suicide pact – The Irish Times | irishtimes.com |
| WRC Rally Finland: Sebastien Ogier claims lead after incident packed morning | motorsport.com |
| We catch Jeanie And The White Boys before they make it big | brightonandhovenews.org |
| At least 18 die after breach of border between Morocco and Spanish territory of Ceuta | kmuw.org |
| Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the s... | semissourian.com |
| At least 18 people die in bid to reach Spanish enclave of Ceuta | sthelensstar.co.uk |
Who covers France
The most active publisher on this country is zazoom.it at roughly
4% of the coverage. Combine country with
source to narrow to publishers you trust, or with
language to separate domestic reporting from international.
zazoom.it · sudouest.fr · ladepeche.fr · udn.com · news.yam.md · euronews.com · bfmtv.com · tuttomercatoweb.com · maville.com · inewsgr.com · radiofrance.fr · franceinfo.fr · leparisien.fr · aol.co.uk
Cities with their own coverage
Places inside France that carry enough coverage to filter on individually,
using city.
city=Paris— 557 articles, 418 outlets
What this market is best for
Best for European institutional process and for African political and economic affairs, where francophone reporting is the primary source rather than a translation. Weakest for technology, which largely follows English-language coverage. The African material is the strongest reason to query this market directly.
Narrowing further
# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=FR&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid
# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=FR&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.