The nwsppr News Index, September 2026

The month in numbers

Stories

7,711

Articles behind them

8,567

Outlets that led a story

240

Stories by industry

Most-covered companies

Outlets that led the most stories

How it's counted

Every number comes from the stories nwsppr read and filed for its 12 public industry editions: trade press, newsrooms, regulators and official announcements. When several outlets report the same news it counts as one story, and the articles column counts every outlet's version. A story filed under two industries counts once in the totals and once in each industry. Companies and people are the ones named when a story was edited in full, so a story filed from its headline alone doesn't count toward them, and outlets aren't counted as companies. Topics on the rise compare this period with the one before it, of equal length, and only show once that period has enough stories to compare with. This month is reconstructed: it comes from one news search per industry per day, after the fact, rather than from the feeds the engine reads every day, and its companies, people and topics were read from the headlines alone. Press releases on the wire services are left out, since they're announcements rather than coverage, no outlet counts for more than ten stories a day, and the companies list leaves out people, governments and agencies. How we pick the news.

Download the data as CSV. To cite it: nwsppr News Index, September 2026, www.nwsppr.ai/news-index/2026-09.