Skip to the story

Asia-Pacific / Australia · Conflict & Security

Australian soldier dies in Northern Territory training exercise

Rank
Running
3h
Updated
33m ago
Momentum
+36%
Outlets
10
Regions
3
Countries
9
Languages
5

+0

The Sydney Morning Herald Australia · English 5 Oct, 22:41 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · العربية (1) · 中文 (1) · +3 languages

Read at The Sydney Morning Herald

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 3 hours.

5 10
0h 1h 2h 3h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 Oct, 22:41 UTC.
  2. Second country: Greece, with ERT.
  3. Second region: Europe, with ERT.
  4. Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 6 Oct, 00:25 UTC.
  5. Now: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

4 of 4 hours

Earlier Later

The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

60%20%20%

  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 5 countries · 60%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%

First movers

  1. The Sydney Morning Herald 5 Oct, 22:41 UTC
  2. SBS News +38m
  3. ERT +43m
  4. Liberty Times +1h 44m
  5. The Jerusalem Post +1h 49m

Latest arrivals

  1. CNA 6 Oct, 01:35 UTC
  2. Media Indonesia 6 Oct, 01:33 UTC
  3. Sky News Arabia 6 Oct, 01:14 UTC
  4. Stuff 6 Oct, 00:56 UTC
  5. BBC News 6 Oct, 00:35 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 9 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 5: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan. Europe 2: Greece, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Israel, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Greek, English, Indonesian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 Oct 2026, 22:41 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 22:50 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 01:35 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Australia. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
9.82, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 353 2.89 3 2 3 2 4.1

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 5 Oct, 22:50 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 01:35 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • CNA Singapore 6 Oct, 01:35 UTC
    Australian Army soldier dies and five others injured during training exercise
  • Media Indonesia Indonesia 6 Oct, 01:33 UTC
    1 Prajurit Tewas, Lima Lainnya Dilarikan ke Rumah Sakit akibat Insiden Latihan Militer di Australia
  • Stuff New Zealand 6 Oct, 00:56 UTC
    Australian soldier dies, five others injured in Northern Territory training exercise
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 6 Oct, 00:30 UTC
    Australian soldier dies during training exercise
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Australian soldier killed in NT military exercise 5 Oct, 22:41 UTC
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 6 Oct, 00:25 UTC
    澳洲陸軍演訓出意外釀1死5傷 今年第二起演訓死亡事故
  • SBS News Australia 5 Oct, 23:19 UTC
    Australian soldier dies during training exercise in the Northern Territory

Europe 2 outlets

  • BBC News United Kingdom 6 Oct, 00:35 UTC
    Australian soldier dies and five injured in training exercise
  • ERT Greece 5 Oct, 23:24 UTC
    Αυστραλία: Ένας στρατιώτης νεκρός και πέντε τραυματίες σε εκπαιδευτική άσκηση

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 6 Oct, 01:14 UTC
    مقتل جندي أسترالي وإصابة 5 خلال تدريب عسكري
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 6 Oct, 00:30 UTC
    One Australian soldier killed, five injured in Mount Bundey training accident
Read at The Sydney Morning Herald

Loudest reads the world's press every ten minutes and sizes each story by how widely it is covered.

Live map Archive Data Sources Methodology About Privacy & terms