With the pandemic affecting in-person meetings globally, it seems last year’s media coverage of the United Nations General Assembly suffered from the lack of usual “buzz” as the meeting was completely virtual, as covered in our analysis.
However, according to a Nexis Uni search, for the majority of major news publications, numbers indicate that this year’s High-Level Week at the United Nations General Assembly saw a significant rise in coverage from the previous year, with coverage doubling and more in line with pre-pandemic numbers.