Left-leaning outlets (WaPo, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, Guardian) give more emphasis to Trump's Greenland threats as a structural driver of the vote and to the political and economic significance of Iceland's rejection for the EU (a lost 'success case' for enlargement), while also detailing fishing-industry opposition (e.g., 90% of firms against) and the urban-rural/Reykjavik-versus-rest divide in the result.
Mainstream outlets (BBC, CNBC, Sky, France 24, DW) frame the referendum as a genuinely knife-edge domestic contest primarily about fishing, sovereignty, and cost-of-living/currency instability, with Trump's Greenland rhetoric and Russian Arctic activity providing important but secondary geopolitical context. Coverage is largely descriptive, citing named officials, campaigners and academics on both sides, and following the story from pre-vote polling through the final 52.8%-47.2%'No' result.
Right-leaning outlets (Fox News, Breitbart, Washington Times) frame the story briefly around the 'No' result, emphasizing that voters chose national independence and control of fisheries over restarting talks, and note the geopolitical backdrop (Trump/Greenland) as one side of the debate rather than a primary driver; coverage is shorter and more result-focused than the other spectrums.