United Kingdom news API

What coverage of United Kingdom looks like

A concentrated national press with unusually high international output — a large share of UK-published coverage is about somewhere else, which inflates counts for other countries too.

The media landscape

A small number of national titles with unusually large international output, a shrinking regional press, and a broadcast sector with a substantial online presence. National coverage skews toward Westminster and finance; regional reporting has thinned enough that local stories often reach the index only when a national picks them up.

Does this cover articles published in United Kingdom, or about it?

About it. The country filter matches the places an article is about, so a wire piece about United Kingdom filed from London is in scope and a United Kingdom outlet writing about somewhere else is not. To filter by where the publisher is based, use publisher_country instead, and combine the two when you want domestic reporting about the domestic market.

How do I filter news to United Kingdom?

Use publisher_country=UK when you want British reporting rather than reporting about Britain. The two sets overlap far less than people expect.

GET /search?country=UK&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.

What catches people out with United Kingdom coverage?

A large share of what this filter returns was published elsewhere. UK-based publishers also produce heavy international output, so the reverse holds for other countries — British outlets inflate counts for markets they cover. Separate the two directions with publisher_country before computing anything comparative. The heavy international output cuts both ways: British outlets inflate coverage counts for other countries, and a query about Britain returns a large volume published elsewhere. Financial and legal reporting is the most differentiated material, and the regional press has thinned enough that local stories often appear only after national pickup.

Recent coverage

Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

• Van linked to charity clothing thefts seized in Baldock thecomet.net
• Brian Mark Weber: DSA Mission: Destroy the Republic patriotpost.us
• Virgin Money UK PLC Change of Name | Company Announcement investegate.co.uk
• Accrington and Rossendale College gets £3.3m investment lancashiretelegraph.co.uk
• Can Andy Burnham turn a flying start into sustained success? aol.co.uk
• How pharmacists are storing medicines in soaring temperatures pharmaceutical-journal.com
• Police 'concerned' for missing Cambridgeshire teenager huntspost.co.uk
• Melanie Woods must race again after disqualification drama westerntelegraph.co.uk

Which outlets cover United Kingdom most?

The most active publisher on this country is aol.co.uk at roughly 3% of the coverage, and the three busiest — aol.co.uk, express.co.uk, investegate.co.uk — carry about 6% between them. That share is worth reading before the volume figure: concentrated coverage means a large result count can still be a small number of newsrooms. Combine country with source to narrow to publishers you trust, or with language to separate domestic reporting from international.

aol.co.uk · express.co.uk · investegate.co.uk · finanznachrichten.de · mirror.co.uk · nwemail.co.uk · birminghammail.co.uk · theargus.co.uk · dailymail.com · edp24.co.uk · euronews.com · newsandstar.co.uk · manchestereveningnews.co.uk · walesonline.co.uk

Cities with their own coverage

Places inside United Kingdom that carry enough coverage to filter on individually, using city.

• city=London — 1.2k articles, 707 outlets

What this market is best for

Best for financial markets, international affairs and legal and regulatory developments, with strong global reach. Weakest for local and regional reporting, which has thinned considerably. Its heavy international output makes it useful as a widely-read secondary view on other markets, and unreliable as a proxy for them.

Narrowing further

Two constraints do most of the work on this axis. Adding a language separates domestic reporting from international commentary about United Kingdom, which an unscoped country query returns together. Adding a signal range with a lower bound narrows to articles written in a particular register — supply disruption, financial stress, conflict — rather than to articles that merely mention the subject.

# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=UK&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid

# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=UK&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.