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New ransom note emerges in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case

Rank
Ran
13h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
2

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 29 Sept, 05:51 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 14 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 29 Sept, 05:51 UTC.
  2. Second country: United States, with ABC News.
  3. Second region: Americas, with ABC News.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 05:51 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

14 of 14 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

63%37%

  • Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 63%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 1 country · 37%

First movers

  1. The Independent 29 Sept, 05:51 UTC
  2. Sky News +14m
  3. ABC News +19m
  4. CTV News +5h 19m
  5. The Guardian +6h 35m

Last to join

  1. Global News 29 Sept, 19:36 UTC
  2. Fox News 29 Sept, 17:42 UTC
  3. Infobae 29 Sept, 12:52 UTC
  4. The Guardian 29 Sept, 12:26 UTC
  5. CTV News 29 Sept, 11:10 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Argentina, Canada, United States. Europe 1: United Kingdom. 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
English, Spanish.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 29 Sept 2026, 05:51 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 06:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 19:36 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 Americas, United States. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged not hard news, unsure. Left off 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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
29 Sept 2026 269 4.64 8 4 8 4 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 06:00 UTC · Updated 19:36 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 5 outlets

  • Global News Canada 29 Sept, 19:36 UTC
    Police investigating ‘new possible ransom note’ in Nancy Guthrie case
  • Fox News United States 29 Sept, 17:42 UTC
    Sheriff's department aware of possible new ransom note in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case
  • Infobae Argentina 29 Sept, 12:52 UTC
    Caso Nancy Guthrie: surge una posible nueva nota de rescate ocho meses después de su secuestro
  • CTV News Canada 29 Sept, 11:10 UTC
    Officials are looking into a possible new ransom note related to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance
  • ABC News United States 29 Sept, 06:10 UTC
    Officials looking into possible new ransom note related to Nancy Guthrie

Europe 3 outlets

  • The Guardian United Kingdom 29 Sept, 12:26 UTC
    Officials investigate possible new ransom note in Nancy Guthrie case
  • The Independent United Kingdom 29 Sept, 08:20 UTC
    New Nancy Guthrie ransom note being probed by investigators
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • Cops probe new ransom note in Nancy Guthrie mystery 29 Sept, 07:25 UTC
    • Officials are looking into a possible new ransom note related to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance 29 Sept, 05:51 UTC
  • Sky News United Kingdom 29 Sept, 06:06 UTC
    Nancy Guthrie investigators examine new possible ransom note
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