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Coverage & sourcesThe Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US in 2023

Collected articles: every report in this story's record, counted once, in the week (Monday to Sunday, UTC) it was published; a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. Copies of the same wire story count as separate articles. This shows how much we collected, not how important a development was or whether it was independently confirmed. It covers this record only, not all news coverage. Our collection begins in October 2021.

Collected articles per week

1851 dated articles from Jan 30, 2023 to the week of June 26, 2023.

7800Week of January 30, 2023: 780 articlesWeek of February 6, 2023: 500 articlesWeek of February 13, 2023: 408 articlesWeek of February 20, 2023: 76 articlesWeek of February 27, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of March 6, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of March 13, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of March 20, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of March 27, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of April 3, 2023: 27 articlesWeek of April 10, 2023: 6 articlesWeek of April 17, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of April 24, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of May 1, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of May 8, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of May 15, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of May 22, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of May 29, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of June 5, 2023: 13 articlesWeek of June 12, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of June 19, 2023: 0 articlesWeek of June 26, 2023: 41 articlesFeb 2023Mar 2023Apr 2023May 2023Jun 2023

Weekly counts, newest first

Collected articles per week
Week ofArticlesReports
June 26, 202341June 2023 in the record
June 19, 20230
June 12, 20230
June 5, 202313
May 29, 20230May 2023 in the record
May 22, 20230
May 15, 20230
May 8, 20230
May 1, 20230
April 24, 20230April 2023 in the record
April 17, 20230
April 10, 20236
April 3, 202327
March 27, 20230March 2023 in the record
March 20, 20230
March 13, 20230
March 6, 20230
February 27, 20230February 2023 in the record
February 20, 202376
February 13, 2023408
February 6, 2023500
January 30, 2023780January 2023 in the record

Compare by outlet rating

Of 1,851 dated articles, 17% from left-rated outlets, 50% from center-rated outlets, 8% from local TV counted as center, 20% from right-rated outlets and 5% from outlets not placed left or right.

A rating describes the outlet, not a single report. How outlets are rated

The table, with every outlet behind each number

Outlets nobody has rated stay in their own group. Local TV newsrooms are counted as center by a published rule, whatever their own rating, and are shown apart from outlets rated center.

Outlet ratingArticlesShare of the 1851
Left (left and lean-left outlets)
The 48 outlets
32217%
Center (outlets rated center)
The 129 outlets
91850%
Counted as center by rule (local TV newsrooms)
The 14 outlets
1458%
Right (right and lean-right outlets)
The 45 outlets
36620%
Not placed left or right (foreign outlets, entertainment trades)
The 8 outlets
1005%

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