Keyword topic
9 articles from 7 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention hostage, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned hostage, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
PBS NewsHour mentioned it first (Oct 6, 2026, 6:25 PM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 11 hours later, least biased outlets 18 days later.
One row per source that mentioned hostage, 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.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention hostage, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Bloomberg | 0.2% | 1 | 473 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.2% | 1 | 569 |
| The Hill | 0.1% | 1 | 1133 |
| New York Post | 0.1% | 2 | 2344 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.1% | 1 | 853 |
| Fox News | 0.1% | 2 | 2433 |
| Breitbart | 0.1% | 1 | 1826 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention hostage, 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.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- <0.1%
- Right-leaning4 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +1.8: covered more by right-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 hostage. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as hostage, 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.
Example articles
The article that features hostage most, per source.
- BloombergPutin Releases Hostage, Earns US Praise as Humanitarian
- PBS NewsHourBrett McGurk chronicles negotiations to free Oct. 7 hostages in 'Brink'
- The HillJohn Coale is exactly who we need to bring home our Americans
- New York PostMan killed by police after holding 13 kids hostage at knifepoint in Brazilian school
- The Daily WireSalvadoran President Warns Haitian Gangs Holding Hostages: ‘We Can Finish With You Too’
- Fox News'I am Omer': Former Hamas hostage reflects on surviving 505 harrowing days in captivity
- BreitbartCNN's Diamond: Israel's Military Actions 'Prompted' Hamas to Kill Some Hostages
All articles
Every article that mentions hostage, 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.