Editorial and sources policy

Publisher attribution

TrendAtlas displays headlines, available publication dates and short excerpts from approved feeds, with links to the original publishers.

GOV.UK headlines and excerpts contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New Zealand Government excerpts are attributed to the New Zealand Crown.

Original Electronic Frontier Foundation excerpts are credited to EFF and the named authors under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The publisher excerpt on each story may be shortened.

Event coverage

Events group reports about a specific development. The independent media count uses distinct reporting sources, with attributed syndicated copies grouped by origin. Official announcements can appear alongside reporting.

Trend rankings

Event scores use recency, growth in independent coverage, keyword growth, editorial source ratings, coverage detail and recorded publisher clicks. Available signals are weighted to a total of 100%. Weekly and monthly popular lists count clicks recorded during the selected period.

Outbound clicks

TrendAtlas counts recent outbound story clicks to identify popular links. Individual click records contain a story identifier and a time and expire after 30 days.

Advertising

Paid placements carry an Advertisement label. Event and story rankings are calculated independently of advertising placements.