Europe / Germany · Conflict & Security

Former German spy chief August Hanning falls amid allegations of selling services

Rank
Running: 23h
Updated: 10h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

Financial Times United Kingdom · English 11 Oct, 04:00 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (3) · +1 language

Read at Financial Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El País, 11 Oct, 03:30 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with Financial Times.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 11 Oct, 03:30 UTC.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with UzA.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Europe 5 outlets · 2 countries · 83%

First movers

El País 11 Oct, 03:30 UTC
La Vanguardia +30m
Financial Times +30m
The Guardian +1h 30m
UzA +8h 19m

Latest arrivals

elDiario.es 11 Oct, 16:57 UTC
UzA 11 Oct, 11:49 UTC
The Guardian 11 Oct, 05:00 UTC
Financial Times 11 Oct, 04:00 UTC
La Vanguardia 11 Oct, 04:00 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: German intelligence chief arrested on espionage charges, 8 to 9 Oct 2026, 8 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Uzbekistan. Europe 2: Spain, 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, Uzbek.
Timeline: Earliest article El País, 11 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 04:10 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 16:57 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 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: 0.22, 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 German intelligence chief arrested on espionage charges. 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 281 2.98 6 3 6 3 4.7

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Started 11 Oct, 04:10 UTC · Updated 16:57 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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elDiario.es Spain 11 Oct, 16:57 UTC
El escándalo por la detención de su antiguo jefe sacude a los servicios secretos alemanes: "Es una puñalada en el corazón"
UzA Uzbekistan 11 Oct, 11:49 UTC
Германия: Бош разведкачи жосус бўлиб чиқдими?
The Guardian United Kingdom 11 Oct, 05:00 UTC
‘Stab to the heart’: arrest of German ex-spymaster sparks calls for reform
Financial Times United Kingdom 11 Oct, 04:00 UTC
The fall of Germany’s ex-spymaster
La Vanguardia Spain 11 Oct, 04:00 UTC
Los secretos del ‘espía’ alemán August Hanning
El País Spain 11 Oct, 03:30 UTC
August Hanning, el espía alemán que se vendía al mejor postor