{
 "id": "wnd-analysis",
 "version": "0.1.0",
 "updated": "2026-09-29",
 "question": "Twenty-one editors, publishers and directors answered the same question in the same week. Counted together, what did they say — and what did they not?",
 "how": "Every number is a count over the frozen bytes. The themes are the published lexicon in data/lexicon.json and nothing else; the links are the <a> tags in the article body. build/gates.py re-derives all of it.",
 "refuses": [
  "No sentiment, no stance, no scoring. A count of words is not a measure of a person.",
  "No claim that two authors agree. agrees_with is a banned verb in this graph.",
  "No claim about what an author believes, only about what this one piece contains.",
  "No ranking of the publications. The corpus is not a competition and we are not a judge."
 ],
 "shape": {
  "total_words": 20060,
  "shortest": 649,
  "longest": 2274,
  "median": 918,
  "published_between": [
   "2026-09-25",
   "2026-09-27"
  ],
  "themes_per_article_min": 6,
  "themes_per_article_max": 14
 },
 "people": {
  "articles": 21,
  "named_authors": 23,
  "pieces_with_more_than_one_byline": 2,
  "organisations_named_in_role_lines": 26,
  "organisations": [
   "AFP",
   "Association of Independent Regional Press Publishers of Ukraine",
   "Brazilian Newspaper Association (ANJ)",
   "Coda Story",
   "Covering Climate Now",
   "Daraj.com",
   "European Broadcasting Union",
   "Fondation Hirondelle",
   "Globe and Mail",
   "Haitian Times",
   "Informed",
   "News Corp Australasia",
   "Paraluman News",
   "Project Kontinuum",
   "Quint Digital Limited",
   "The Atlas",
   "The GroundTruth Project",
   "The Quint",
   "Truth Tellers",
   "UNESCO",
   "URL Media",
   "Vocento",
   "World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)",
   "World Editors Forum",
   "ZEG Network",
   "confidencial.digital"
  ],
  "note": "An author's organisation is taken from the role line the piece itself prints under the byline, never from anywhere else, and never looked up."
 },
 "themes": [
  {
   "id": "truth",
   "label": "Truth and facts",
   "articles": 19,
   "share": 0.905
  },
  {
   "id": "audience",
   "label": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "articles": 19,
   "share": 0.905
  },
  {
   "id": "trust",
   "label": "Trust and credibility",
   "articles": 17,
   "share": 0.81
  },
  {
   "id": "investigation",
   "label": "Investigative reporting",
   "articles": 15,
   "share": 0.714
  },
  {
   "id": "platforms",
   "label": "Platforms and distribution",
   "articles": 15,
   "share": 0.714
  },
  {
   "id": "democracy",
   "label": "Democracy and civic life",
   "articles": 14,
   "share": 0.667
  },
  {
   "id": "misinformation",
   "label": "Misinformation and propaganda",
   "articles": 13,
   "share": 0.619
  },
  {
   "id": "ownership",
   "label": "Ownership and independence",
   "articles": 12,
   "share": 0.571
  },
  {
   "id": "ai",
   "label": "Artificial intelligence",
   "articles": 11,
   "share": 0.524
  },
  {
   "id": "business-model",
   "label": "Money and the business model",
   "articles": 11,
   "share": 0.524
  },
  {
   "id": "collaboration",
   "label": "Collaboration and alliances",
   "articles": 10,
   "share": 0.476
  },
  {
   "id": "safety",
   "label": "Journalist safety and persecution",
   "articles": 10,
   "share": 0.476
  },
  {
   "id": "war",
   "label": "War and conflict",
   "articles": 9,
   "share": 0.429
  },
  {
   "id": "public-service",
   "label": "Public service and infrastructure",
   "articles": 8,
   "share": 0.381
  },
  {
   "id": "language-access",
   "label": "Language and access",
   "articles": 7,
   "share": 0.333
  },
  {
   "id": "press-freedom",
   "label": "Press freedom",
   "articles": 6,
   "share": 0.286
  },
  {
   "id": "climate",
   "label": "Climate",
   "articles": 5,
   "share": 0.238
  },
  {
   "id": "local-news",
   "label": "Local and community news",
   "articles": 5,
   "share": 0.238
  },
  {
   "id": "copyright",
   "label": "Copyright, licensing and scraping",
   "articles": 3,
   "share": 0.143
  },
  {
   "id": "ai-slop",
   "label": "Synthetic content and hallucination",
   "articles": 2,
   "share": 0.095
  }
 ],
 "themes_together": [
  {
   "a": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "b": "Truth and facts",
   "articles": 17
  },
  {
   "a": "Trust and credibility",
   "b": "Truth and facts",
   "articles": 17
  },
  {
   "a": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "b": "Trust and credibility",
   "articles": 15
  },
  {
   "a": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "b": "Investigative reporting",
   "articles": 14
  },
  {
   "a": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "b": "Platforms and distribution",
   "articles": 14
  },
  {
   "a": "Democracy and civic life",
   "b": "Truth and facts",
   "articles": 14
  },
  {
   "a": "Investigative reporting",
   "b": "Truth and facts",
   "articles": 14
  },
  {
   "a": "Platforms and distribution",
   "b": "Truth and facts",
   "articles": 14
  },
  {
   "a": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "b": "Democracy and civic life",
   "articles": 13
  },
  {
   "a": "Audience, attention and avoidance",
   "b": "Misinformation and propaganda",
   "articles": 12
  },
  {
   "a": "Democracy and civic life",
   "b": "Investigative reporting",
   "articles": 12
  },
  {
   "a": "Democracy and civic life",
   "b": "Trust and credibility",
   "articles": 12
  }
 ],
 "themes_never_together": [
  {
   "a": "Synthetic content and hallucination",
   "b": "Money and the business model"
  },
  {
   "a": "Synthetic content and hallucination",
   "b": "Collaboration and alliances"
  },
  {
   "a": "Synthetic content and hallucination",
   "b": "Local and community news"
  },
  {
   "a": "Synthetic content and hallucination",
   "b": "Ownership and independence"
  },
  {
   "a": "Synthetic content and hallucination",
   "b": "Public service and infrastructure"
  },
  {
   "a": "Climate",
   "b": "Local and community news"
  },
  {
   "a": "Climate",
   "b": "War and conflict"
  },
  {
   "a": "Copyright, licensing and scraping",
   "b": "Ownership and independence"
  },
  {
   "a": "Copyright, licensing and scraping",
   "b": "Public service and infrastructure"
  },
  {
   "a": "Copyright, licensing and scraping",
   "b": "War and conflict"
  },
  {
   "a": "Language and access",
   "b": "Local and community news"
  }
 ],
 "evidence": {
  "articles": 21,
  "with_no_outbound_link_at_all": 11,
  "with_at_least_one": 10,
  "total_links": 38,
  "median_links_per_article": 0,
  "most_links_in_one_piece": 14,
  "distinct_domains": 23,
  "domains_reached_by_more_than_one_piece": {},
  "institutions_reached_by_more_than_one_piece": {
   "unesco.org": [
    "independent-news-media-need-more-than-short-term-funding",
    "remembering-9-11-as-a-local-news-story"
   ]
  },
  "per_article": [
   {
    "slug": "nicaragua-reinventing-journalism-in-exile",
    "title": "Nicaragua: Reinventing Journalism in Exile",
    "links": 14,
    "domains": [
     "bbc.co.uk",
     "confidencial.digital",
     "theguardian.com",
     "youtube.com"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "independent-news-media-need-more-than-short-term-funding",
    "title": "Independent News Media Need More Than Short-Term Funding",
    "links": 8,
    "domains": [
     "eur-lex.europa.eu",
     "gfmd.info",
     "hirondelle.org",
     "ifpim.org",
     "ifrc.org",
     "informationdemocracy.org",
     "policy-advocacy.gfmd.info",
     "unesdoc.unesco.org"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "the-integrity-dividend-the-value-of-knowing",
    "title": "The Integrity Dividend: The Value of Knowing",
    "links": 4,
    "domains": [
     "wan-ifra.org"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "indias-students-found-their-voice-this-summer-while-journalists-are-losing-theirs",
    "title": "India’s students found their voice this summer while journalists are losing theirs",
    "links": 3,
    "domains": [
     "cockroachjantaparty.org",
     "en.wikipedia.org"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "the-role-of-the-news-media-in-fighting-the-climate-crisis",
    "title": "The role of the news media in fighting the climate crisis",
    "links": 3,
    "domains": [
     "89percent.org",
     "coveringclimatenow.org"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "free-press-needs-alliances-against-censorship-and-fragmentation",
    "title": "Free press needs alliances against censorship and fragmentation",
    "links": 2,
    "domains": [
     "codastory.com",
     "theatlasnewspaper.org"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "america-was-the-arsenal-of-democracy-now-its-disarming-the-press",
    "title": "America Was the Arsenal of Democracy; Now It’s Disarming the Press",
    "links": 1,
    "domains": [
     "podcasts.apple.com"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "democracy-needs-journalism-in-every-language",
    "title": "Democracy Needs Journalism in Every Language",
    "links": 1,
    "domains": [
     "myparaluman.ph"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "remembering-9-11-as-a-local-news-story",
    "title": "Remembering 9-11 as a local news story",
    "links": 1,
    "domains": [
     "unesco.org"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "the-things-i-learned-from-my-daughters-a-central-bank-investigation-and-a-box-of-watermelon-gum",
    "title": "The things I learned  from my daughters, a central bank investigation, and a box of watermelon gum",
    "links": 1,
    "domains": [
     "daraj.com"
    ]
   },
   {
    "slug": "2026-world-news-day-time-to-fight",
    "title": "2026 World News Day: Time to fight",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "a-lesson-from-ukraine-newsroom-resilience-makes-press-freedom-real",
    "title": "A lesson from Ukraine: Newsroom resilience makes press freedom real",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "dystopia-inc-would-you-like-your-news-with-or-without-hallucinations",
    "title": "Dystopia, Inc: Would you like your news with or without hallucinations?",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "footballs-enduring-controversies-show-why-journalism-matters",
    "title": "Football’s enduring controversies show why journalism matters",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "journalism-is-civic-infrastructure-we-need-to-support-it",
    "title": "Journalism is Civic Infrastructure. We need to support it.",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "journalism-our-chaotic-worlds-future",
    "title": "Journalism & Our Chaotic World’s Future",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "media-faces-violence-persecution-and-the-existential-threat-posed-by-ai-and-yet-we-are-still-here",
    "title": "Media faces violence, persecution and the existential threat posed by AI – and yet we are still here",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "thank-goodness-for-the-storytellers-the-ones-who-probe-question-irritate-the-powerful",
    "title": "Thank goodness for the storytellers – the ones who probe, question, irritate the powerful",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "truth-in-an-ai-world",
    "title": "Truth in an AI World",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "we-must-make-truth-matter-again",
    "title": "We must make truth matter again",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   },
   {
    "slug": "when-information-is-everywhere-and-the-reasons-to-give-up-are-so-many-journalism-matters-even-more",
    "title": "When information is everywhere, and the reasons to give up are so many… journalism matters even more",
    "links": 0,
    "domains": []
   }
  ],
  "note": "Counted as the article offers them: an <a> in the article body, in the frozen bytes. Links in the site's own furniture are not the article's evidence and are not counted. Nothing here was fetched: this section says what the piece offered, not whether it holds up."
 }
}