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Scottish author Peter May dies at 74

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 5d ago
Closed
Outlets: 8
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 4

Le Figaro France · French 28 Sept, 10:46 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Čeština (3) · +2 languages

Read at Le Figaro

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Le Figaro, 28 Sept, 10:46 UTC.
Second country: Greece, with ERT.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 11:50 UTC.
Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

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

The regions

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Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
Europe 7 outlets · 3 countries · 87%

First movers

Le Figaro 28 Sept, 10:46 UTC
ERT +1h 3m
To Vima +1h 39m
Infobae +2h 29m
ČT24 +4h 4m

Last to join

iDNES 30 Sept, 09:36 UTC
Libération 28 Sept, 17:15 UTC
Seznam Zprávy 28 Sept, 14:50 UTC
ČT24 28 Sept, 14:50 UTC
Infobae 28 Sept, 13:15 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, 2 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 3: Czechia, France, Greece. 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: Czech, Greek, Spanish, French.
Timeline: Earliest article Le Figaro, 28 Sept 2026, 10:46 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 11:00 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 09:36 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 Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. 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.
Chain: Continued by Suri menukas šoti krimikirjanik Peter May. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

28 Sept 2026 294 3.59 7 4 7 4 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 11:00 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 09:36 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Infobae Argentina 28 Sept, 13:15 UTC
Murió Peter May, bestseller escocés de la novela negra

Europe 7 outlets

iDNES Czechia 30 Sept, 09:36 UTC
Zemřel Peter May. Autorovi oblíbené série z ostrova Lewis právě česky vychází kniha
Libération France 28 Sept, 17:15 UTC
Mort de Peter May, romancier écossais vif
Seznam Zprávy Czechia 28 Sept, 14:50 UTC
Zemřel autor oblíbených detektivek Peter May
ČT24 Czechia 28 Sept, 14:50 UTC
Zemřel autor detektivek Peter May
To Vima Greece 28 Sept, 12:25 UTC
Πέθανε σε ηλικία 74 ετών ο Σκωτσέζος συγγραφέας Πίτερ Μέι
ERT Greece 28 Sept, 11:50 UTC
Πέθανε ο Σκωτσέζος συγγραφέας αστυνομικών μυθιστορημάτων Πίτερ Μέι
Le Figaro France 28 Sept, 10:46 UTC
Peter May, auteur de polar écossais, est décédé à l’âge de 74 ans