Press Hound

Keywords

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Top keywords across all news outlets

Ranked by share of stories: the share of each source's stories that day that mention the keyword, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories, so every outlet counts equally whatever the size of its feed. 20% means one in five stories at a typical outlet. Article counts are shown for context.

Top keywords across all news outlets
117.4%9
214.5%6
312.4%7
411.0%6
510.8%7
610.2%7
78.3%5
87.0%6
96.6%6
105.7%2
115.2%6
125.1%3
134.6%4
144.2%4
154.2%5

Rising today

Keywords whose share of stories jumped most against their average of the previous seven days: breaking stories, even before they top the list. Only keywords in at least 3% of stories today count.

Rising today
KeywordTypeTodayAverage of the previous 7 daysChangeLast 8 days
topic12.4%0.2%+12.2 pts
place11.0%0.3%+10.7 pts
person17.4%7.0%+10.4 pts
topic14.5%4.5%+10.0 pts
organization10.8%1.4%+9.4 pts
place8.3%0.2%+8.1 pts
place10.2%3.5%+6.7 pts
topic5.1%0.0%+5.1 pts
person5.7%0.8%+4.9 pts
topic6.6%1.8%+4.8 pts

Two-week trend

Share of stories per day for the top 5 keywords, Jul 9 to Jul 22, all sources.

Rankings by day

How the top 20 keywords of Jul 9 to Jul 22 ranked against each other each day by share of stories, top 10 per day. A line breaks where a keyword fell out of them. Click a line to open the keyword.

Jul 10Jul 12Jul 14Jul 16Jul 18Jul 20Jul 22lawsuit: #10, 5.8% of stories, Jul 20Congress: #9, 5.1% of stories, Jul 21Arizona: #7, 8.1% of stories, Jul 21tariff: #6, 7.9% of stories, Jul 20tariff: #10, 5.0% of stories, Jul 21World Cup: #5, 9.3% of stories, Jul 20election: #8, 7.1% of stories, Jul 20election: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 21Republican Party: #7, 7.8% of stories, Jul 20Republican Party: #6, 8.6% of stories, Jul 21Republican Party: #10, 5.2% of stories, Jul 2210. Republican PartyPete Hegseth: #9, 5.7% of stories, Jul 229. Pete Hegsethmilitary: #9, 6.4% of stories, Jul 20military: #8, 5.9% of stories, Jul 21military: #8, 6.6% of stories, Jul 228. militaryUnited States: #4, 10.1% of stories, Jul 20United States: #5, 9.5% of stories, Jul 21United States: #7, 7.0% of stories, Jul 227. United StatesIran: #3, 12.4% of stories, Jul 20Iran: #3, 12.3% of stories, Jul 21Iran: #6, 10.2% of stories, Jul 226. IranDemocratic Party: #5, 10.8% of stories, Jul 225. Democratic PartyIsrael: #4, 11.0% of stories, Jul 224. Israelartificial intelligence: #3, 12.4% of stories, Jul 223. artificial intelligenceIran war: #2, 17.8% of stories, Jul 20Iran war: #2, 13.5% of stories, Jul 21Iran war: #2, 14.5% of stories, Jul 222. Iran warDonald Trump: #1, 24.4% of stories, Jul 20Donald Trump: #1, 24.4% of stories, Jul 21Donald Trump: #1, 17.4% of stories, Jul 221. Donald Trump

Story timeline

The top 20 keywords of Jul 9 to Jul 22, shaded by their share of stories each day and ordered by the day they peaked, so stories read from top left to bottom right as they rise and fade.

Hover a row to split its cells by outlet lean:leftcenterright

Blindspots

Top keywords of the day that one side covered far more: in at least 5% of stories at outlets of one lean and at most a third of that at the other. Left-leaning are 15 of our sources, right-leaning 15.

Mostly left-leaning outlets

  • 28.8% vs 3.3%
  • 15.1% vs 1.1%
  • 12.5% vs 0.5%
  • 13.2% vs 1.6%
  • 12.2% vs 1.6%

Mostly right-leaning outlets

  • 9.4% vs 1.3%
  • 5.9% vs 0.0%

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

Who covers what

The day's top keywords by source: each dot is the share of the source's stories that mention the keyword, colored by the source's lean. Sources with fewer than 3 stories are left out. Click a dot to open the keyword.

Source lean:leftcenterright

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

By source

Each source's top keywords by the share of its stories that mention them.