How to cite
The author is Loudest, the site, in every case. The versions, dates and addresses below are generated from the site's own records at the time this page was built, so they say what is true now; the accessed date is today's, 5 October 2026. Copy the plain form into prose or the BibTeX into a reference list.
Attribution
The daily data files, the JSON and CSV file for each day, and the JSON record of each story, are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may use them for anything, including commercially, as long as you credit them. Attribute as: Data from loudest.news, CC BY 4.0., with a link to loudest.news where the medium allows.
The licence covers the measurements in those files: the clusters, counts, scores, rankings and headlines written for each cluster. It does not cover the articles we link to, which belong to the outlets that published them, and it does not cover the rest of the site, which is reserved as the terms describe.
The methodology
Cite the version and its effective date, both on the methodology page's header line, and point at the changelog: the document changes, and the version says which system a citation describes. The current version is 4.1, effective 4 October 2026.
Loudest. “How Loudest works”, version 4.1, effective 4 October 2026. 4 October 2026. https://www.loudest.news/methodology. Accessed 5 October 2026. What each version changed is at https://www.loudest.news/methodology/changelog.
@misc{loudest-methodology-4-1,
author = {{Loudest}},
title = {{How Loudest works}},
note = {version 4.1, effective 4 October 2026. What each version changed is at https://www.loudest.news/methodology/changelog.},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.loudest.news/methodology}},
urldate = {2026-10-05},
}
An earlier version is cited the same way with its own number and date from the changelog; the key ends in the version.
The dataset as a whole
Every completed day as JSON and CSV, documented on the data page. The span grows by a day each night; cite it as of the day you accessed it.
Loudest. “Loudest daily coverage dataset”, 14 September 2026 to 4 October 2026, methodology 4.1. 5 October 2026. https://www.loudest.news/data. Accessed 5 October 2026. CC BY 4.0. Data from loudest.news, CC BY 4.0.
@misc{loudest-dataset,
author = {{Loudest}},
title = {{Loudest daily coverage dataset}},
note = {14 September 2026 to 4 October 2026, methodology 4.1. CC BY 4.0. Data from loudest.news, CC BY 4.0.},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.loudest.news/data}},
urldate = {2026-10-05},
}
One archived day
Each day is its own citable unit with its own address, files and methodology version, shown on the day page and carried in the files as methodologyVersion. A captured day never changes: its files are written once and every request returns the same bytes, so the SHA-256 of a file, shown on the day page, pins a citation to exactly what you used. A mistake found later is noted on the day page as a dated erratum, never corrected in place. The latest day measured under one version, as the example:
Loudest. “Loudest coverage snapshot, 4 October 2026”, methodology 4.1. 5 October 2026. https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-10-04. Accessed 5 October 2026. JSON at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-10-04.json, CSV at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-10-04.csv. CC BY 4.0.
@misc{loudest-day-2026-10-04,
author = {{Loudest}},
title = {{Loudest coverage snapshot, 4 October 2026}},
note = {methodology 4.1. JSON at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-10-04.json, CSV at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-10-04.csv. CC BY 4.0.},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-10-04}},
urldate = {2026-10-05},
}
A day a major version changed within is a transition day, measured under neither version whole; cite both, as the day page and the files' methodologyVersions say:
Loudest. “Loudest coverage snapshot, 29 September 2026”, a transition day, spanning methodology 3.3 to 4.0, the change at 21:56 UTC. 30 September 2026. https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-09-29. Accessed 5 October 2026. JSON at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-09-29.json, CSV at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-09-29.csv. CC BY 4.0.
@misc{loudest-day-2026-09-29,
author = {{Loudest}},
title = {{Loudest coverage snapshot, 29 September 2026}},
note = {a transition day, spanning methodology 3.3 to 4.0, the change at 21:56 UTC. JSON at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-09-29.json, CSV at https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-09-29.csv. CC BY 4.0.},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.loudest.news/archive/2026-09-29}},
urldate = {2026-10-05},
}
One story page
Every story has a permanent page whose address is its headline and the first ten characters of its id; the id alone resolves it, so the address survives a relabel. The page describes measured coverage, not the story itself. An example:
Loudest. “Trump to send delegation to Zimbabwe (measured coverage)”, story 00125b46de, methodology 4.1. 4 October 2026. https://www.loudest.news/story/trump-to-send-delegation-to-zimbabwe-00125b46de. Accessed 5 October 2026. The page describes measured coverage, not the story's truth, importance or quality. JSON at https://www.loudest.news/story/trump-to-send-delegation-to-zimbabwe-00125b46de.json.
@misc{loudest-story-00125b46de,
author = {{Loudest}},
title = {{Trump to send delegation to Zimbabwe (measured coverage)}},
note = {story 00125b46de, methodology 4.1. The page describes measured coverage, not the story's truth, importance or quality. JSON at https://www.loudest.news/story/trump-to-send-delegation-to-zimbabwe-00125b46de.json.},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.loudest.news/story/trump-to-send-delegation-to-zimbabwe-00125b46de}},
urldate = {2026-10-05},
}
Notes
The plain form follows the shape of a reference to a web resource: author, title, version, date, address, accessed date. Adjust the punctuation to your style; keep the version. The BibTeX uses @misc with howpublished for the address and urldate for the day you read it, which BibLaTeX also accepts. The feed list is a curated list, not a measurement; cite the methodology for how it was built.