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Topic filterMedia and broadcasting news API
The media industry itself: ownership, regulation, licensing and press freedom. Pass topic=WB_694_BROADCAST_AND_MEDIA to filter.
What does the media and broadcasting topic actually cover?
Ownership changes and consolidation, regulation and licensing, streaming and distribution economics, and press-freedom incidents. The subject is the industry doing the reporting, which makes it behave unlike any other topic here.
How do I filter news to media and broadcasting?
Pass topic=WB_694_BROADCAST_AND_MEDIA on /search or /stories. Expect unusually high outlet counts relative to article volume, because media organisations cover their own industry attentively and pick each other up quickly. That inflates outlet spread as a measure of importance, so lean on the article count and the identity of the outlets rather than on breadth.
GET /stories?topic=WB_694_BROADCAST_AND_MEDIA&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20What catches people out with media and broadcasting coverage?
Reading outlet spread as public interest. Thirty outlets carrying a story about a broadcaster licence means the industry noticed, not that anyone outside it did. This is the one topic where wide independent pickup is close to meaningless, because the publishers are the interested party.
Who publishes on it
Industry trade press produces most of the volume and is where ownership and regulatory detail actually appears. General press engages selectively, and heavily when the story is press freedom or a household-name broadcaster. State outlets cover domestic media regulation with an obvious interest, which is worth knowing before reading their framing as reporting.
In the sample, 989 outlets carry media and broadcasting coverage at about 2
articles each. The busiest is baidu.com at roughly 3%,
and baidu.com, tribunnews.com, tele.at account for about 8% between them.
Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.
What it is best for
Best for tracking ownership, regulation and press-freedom incidents, where the trade press is genuinely detailed and early. Weakest as a measure of audience or of what the public thinks about media, neither of which the industry writes about accurately.
Monitoring it over time
Press-freedom incidents cluster around elections and around moments of political pressure, so the calendar to watch is political rather than editorial. Ownership stories leak in the trade press days before they are confirmed, which makes a trade-press-scoped query the leading indicator and a general query the lagging one.
Which signals pair with media and broadcasting?
Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.
public_sector— Government administration and servicesgovernance_risk— Corruption, institutional failurelegal_litigation— Proceedings, claims, regulatory action
GET /search?topic=WB_694_BROADCAST_AND_MEDIA&signal=public_sector&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
- At least 18 people die in bid to reach Spanish enclave of Ceuta
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- Cyclone leaves Gladiators ahead of new series being filmed
- Urgent: "Hostile drones" entering Kuwaiti airspace destroyed, material damage reported -- Kuwaiti Army-Xinhua
- At least 18 people die in bid to reach Spanish enclave of Ceuta
- Tyla's Lagos concert disappears from world tour amid boycott calls
- Toronto music series Promise Cherry Beach faces backlash after Palestine dispute
- Cyclone leaves Gladiators ahead of new series being filmed
Who covers it
baidu.com · tribunnews.com · tele.at · baomoi.com · 163.com · haberler.com · kompas.com · indiatimes.com · tmtpost.com · sina.com.cn · news.de · inewsgr.com
Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.