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Europe / United Kingdom · Politics

Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland unite on independence

Rank
Ran
3d
Updated
17d ago
Final
Outlets
30
Regions
6
Countries
22
Languages
8

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Where it travelled

The 22 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

30%27%23%17%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 9 outlets · 6 countries · 30%
  • Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 5 countries · 27%
  • Europe 7 outlets · 6 countries · 23%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 17%

The figures

Coverage
30 outlets in 22 countries, across 6 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 30 outlets, 2 state-owned, 2 public-service, 26 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 6: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, United States. Asia-Pacific 5: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Pakistan. Europe 6: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden. Middle East 4: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey. 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, Czech, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article Dagens Nyheter, 13 Sept 2026, 11:35 UTC. First seen 14 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 18 Sept 2026, 12:42 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 Politics. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
12.21, at the end of the last day measured. 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
14 Sept 2026 (partial, lists not rebuilt) 28 5.48 6 6 – – 1.0
15 Sept 2026 (lists not rebuilt) 97 7.96 17 11 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 (lists not rebuilt) 311 3.37 18 12 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 61 18.20 30 22 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 103 12.21 30 22 – – 1.3

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How this was measured

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Started 14 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 18 Sept, 12:42 UTC

Covered by 30 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Premium Times Nigeria

Americas 9 outlets

  • Associated Press United States
  • Axios United States
  • BioBioChile Chile
  • El Universo Ecuador
  • Fox News United States
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • La Tercera Chile
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

  • Dawn Pakistan
  • SBS News Australia
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • The Hindu India
  • The Indian Express India
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia
  • Times of India India

Europe 7 outlets

  • ČT24 Czechia
  • Dagens Nyheter Sweden
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El Mundo Spain
  • El País Spain
  • Telex Hungary
  • TVN24 Poland

Middle East 5 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Daily Sabah Turkey
  • Syria TV Syria

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