The same news, refracted
through every nation’s newsroom.
When two countries disagree, their newspapers disagree first. The same summit is a triumph in one capital and a provocation in the next; a story that leads every front page in one country never appears in another. That gap is usually invisible, because nobody can read forty languages. Press Prism makes it visible — not to tell you who is right, but to show you, side by side, what everyone is being told, so you can judge for yourself.
How it works
Collect
Scrapers read the front pages of 177 mainstream outlets — state-run and independent — across 163 countries, around the clock, every twenty minutes.
Understand
A language model separates real headlines from clutter, translates them into English, and makes the implicit explicit — “RN” becomes “Rassemblement National, far-right French party.” Every headline is scored for topic, tone, framing, and the countries it mentions.
Compare
Headlines telling the same story are clustered into world events, so you can see who covers a story, who ignores it, who cheers and who scowls — and how that changes over time.
How to use it
Country cards Front page
Every card is one country’s media, summarized live: a one-sentence pulse, its current obsessions as tags, and a tone bar. Click a card to read the headlines behind it — in English, with the original text kept alongside and unfamiliar names explained. Star countries to pin them first, and use the time tabs to rewind to any day.
“The world is split on…” Front page
The day’s most divisive story, with every covering country’s flag placed by the tone of its coverage — critics to the left, cheerleaders to the right. Click a flag to read that country’s version, or open the whole event on the map.
World events map World events tab
Pick an event from the ranked list and the map lights up everyone covering it, colored by how warmly they cover it. Or switch the lens to media values — critical voice, individualism, openness, tradition, optimism — scored 0–10 for each country from its actual coverage.
Trends Trends tab
What the world cared about, period by period — day by day, week by week, month by month — with markers for stories that are rising ▲, fading ▼, or new. Add countries to compare their obsessions side by side; click any story to see it on the map.
Country in depth Country pages
Open any country (the ↗ next to its name) for the full record: a day strip of volume and tone for every day we’ve watched, complete headlines for each day, and an Analysis tab — who its press mentions, who mentions it back, and its top people and topics for any day, week, or month.
Your soul country The quiz
Seven questions about your news taste and values, matched against every country’s media profile. Zero seriousness, one hundred percent real data.
Reading the colours
Copyright & takedown
We collect headlines only. Press Prism reads the public front pages of news outlets and keeps just the title of each article, the outlet’s name, and a link back to the original. We never copy, store or republish article text, photographs or any other content.
Those titles are displayed on this site together with our own machine translation and analysis (topic, tone, framing) — always attributed to the outlet and linked to the source. Headlines remain the property of their publishers; the translations and scores are ours.
If you represent an outlet and would rather not be featured here, email [email protected] and we will remove your outlet and all of its headlines immediately — no questions asked.
Honest limits: headlines are machine-translated and machine-classified, and an occasional slip gets through. An outlet missing for a day can mean a quiet news day — or a website that blocks robots. Read Press Prism as a lens on the world’s media, not a verdict on the world.