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Germany's SPD again debates expelling Gerhard Schröder after Putin meeting

Rank
Running
27h
Updated
11h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
1
Countries
4
Languages
4

Deutschlandfunk Germany · German 10 Oct, 23:38 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Română (1) · Slovenčina (1) · Русский (1) · +2 languages

Read at Deutschlandfunk

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 28 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Deutschlandfunk, 10 Oct, 23:38 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with HotNews.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 11 Oct, 11:39 UTC.
  4. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

28 of 28 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

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  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Deutschlandfunk 10 Oct, 23:38 UTC
  2. Der Spiegel +12h 1m
  3. HotNews +12h 46m
  4. Hospodárske noviny +14h 3m
  5. Fontanka +16h 8m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Germans criticise Schröder over attending Putin's birthday celebration in Moscow, 8 to 10 Oct 2026, 59 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 4 countries, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 4: Germany, Romania, Russia, Slovakia. 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
German, Romanian, Russian, Slovak.
Timeline
Earliest article Deutschlandfunk, 10 Oct 2026, 23:38 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 15:46 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, Germany. Topic Politics. 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
0.36, 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.
Chain
Continues Germans criticise Schröder over attending Putin's birthday celebration in Moscow. 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
11 Oct 2026 311 2.76 5 4 4 4 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 23:40 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 15:46 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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  • Fontanka Russia 11 Oct, 15:46 UTC
    Бывшего канцлера Германии Шрёдера хотят исключить из партии за визит на день рождения Путина
  • Hospodárske noviny Slovakia 11 Oct, 13:40 UTC
    Bývalý nemecký kancelár oslavoval s Putinom. V strane silnie tlak na Schröderovo okamžité vylúčenie
  • HotNews Romania 11 Oct, 12:24 UTC
    Social-democrații din Germania cer din nou excluderea din partid a lui Gerhard Schroeder, după întâlnirea cu Putin: „O ruşine absolută pentru întreaga ţară”
  • Der Spiegel Germany 11 Oct, 11:39 UTC
    Gerhard Schröder: SPD-Bezirk Oberpfalz beantragt Parteiausschluss
  • Deutschlandfunk Germany 10 Oct, 23:38 UTC
    Nach Besuch bei Putin - SPD diskutiert erneut über Parteiausschluss Schröders
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