screen time

Share of stories per day

The share of each source's stories that mention screen time, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.

Coverage by source over time

Who picked it up when

NPR mentioned it first (Sep 28, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 24 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.

One row per source that mentioned screen time, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.

Coverage by source

The share of each source's stories that mention screen time, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.

Coverage by lean

The share of stories that mention screen time, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.

Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Lean index −2.6: covered more by left-leaning outlets

Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention screen time. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.

Lean index per day

Related keywords

Keywords that appear in the same articles as screen time, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.

The search icon lists the articles that mention both.

• social mediatopic50.0% (2)

Example articles

The article that features screen time most, per source.

• The New York TimesI’m a Child Psychiatrist. Screens Are Not the Problem.Oct 9, 2026, 1:45 PM EDT
• The AtlanticWell, That’s One Way to Get Screens Out of SchoolsOct 15, 2026, 4:46 PM EDT
• NPR5 tips for parents worried about their kids' screen time and online safetySep 28, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
• Fox NewsJillian Michaels urges parents to fight back against Big Tech's 'addictive' grip on kidsOct 22, 2026, 1:02 PM EDT

All articles

Every article that mentions screen time, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.