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Indonesian ferry capsizes in Java Sea, dozens missing

Rank
Ran
14h
Updated
4d ago
Final
Outlets
5
Regions
4
Countries
4
Languages
1

+0

The Independent United Kingdom · English 1 Oct, 06:22 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

The only language so far · English, 5 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 14 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 1 Oct, 06:22 UTC.
  2. Second country: Malaysia, with Free Malaysia Today.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 1 Oct, 07:58 UTC.
  5. Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

15 of 15 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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  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 40%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

  1. The Independent 1 Oct, 06:22 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today +1h 36m
  3. Malay Mail +1h 38m
  4. TimesLIVE +1h 44m
  5. Maritime Executive +14h 15m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 4 countries, across 4 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. 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.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 1 Oct 2026, 06:22 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 20:37 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 Asia-Pacific, Indonesia. Topic Environment. 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
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
1 Oct 2026 346 3.55 5 4 5 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 06:30 UTC · Updated 20:37 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 1 Oct, 08:06 UTC
    Indonesia arrests ferry captain after 78 die in capsizing

Americas 1 outlet

  • Maritime Executive United States 1 Oct, 20:37 UTC
    Indonesian Police Investigate Captain of Lost Ferry Virgo Transport 8

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Malay Mail Malaysia 1 Oct, 08:01 UTC
    Indonesian authorities detain ferry captain, dozens still missing in Java Sea sinking
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 1 Oct, 07:58 UTC
    Indonesia arrests captain of ferry that sank, killing dozens

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 1 Oct, 06:38 UTC
    Indonesia arrests captain of ferry that capsized in Java Sea killing at least 78 people
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Indonesia arrests captain of ferry that capsized in Java Sea killing at least 78 people 1 Oct, 06:22 UTC
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