Global News Sentiment Tracker Screensaver
The Global News Sentiment Tracker screensaver charts real average news-coverage sentiment (tone) by topic, from the GDELT Project's global media monitoring. It is free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the Global News Sentiment Tracker screensaver works
The saver reads a real daily average-tone time series per topic from the GDELT Project's API.
Positive values mean more positive real coverage that day; negative values mean more negative real coverage.
The pipeline refreshes the series regularly as new coverage is analyzed.
No key is required for this key-less public endpoint.
A worked example
A real dip into negative tone for a topic lines up with real coverage of a difficult news day that GDELT's language analysis actually measured.
Settings & tips
- Tone reflects GDELT's real automated sentiment analysis of global news text, not a human editorial rating.
- Accent recolours the chart lines.
- Topics cycle through a curated real set like climate, AI and the global economy.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real sentiment data?
- Yes — real automated tone analysis from the GDELT Project.
- Is a key needed?
- No. GDELT's DOC API is fully key-less.
- How is tone measured?
- GDELT's real algorithm scores article language on a signed scale from very negative to very positive.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.