![](https://i0.wp.com/www.economist.com/img/b/1280/724/90/media-assets/image/20221224_WOT980.png?w=1200&ssl=1)
War replaces disease as the world’s most newsworthy subject
Russia’s invasion accounted for one-quarter of news-reading hours
✒ A brilliant chart showing the daily hours of readership in 2022, based on dataset of 6.5m stories on 32 newsy topics compiled by Chartbeat, an analytics firm.