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87-year-old woman's eviction sparks housing crisis protests in Spain

Rank
Ran
36h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
5

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Stuff New Zealand · English 29 Sept, 18:32 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · Indonesia (1) · Türkçe (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 37 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: To Vima, 29 Sept, 10:07 UTC.
  2. Second country: Mexico, with El Sol de México.
  3. Second region: Americas, with El Sol de México.
  4. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

37 of 37 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%43%29%14%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 43%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. To Vima 29 Sept, 10:07 UTC
  2. El Sol de México +5h 1m
  3. Stuff +8h 25m
  4. Hürriyet +17h 53m
  5. The Sydney Morning Herald +22h 53m

Last to join

  1. Detik 30 Sept, 23:00 UTC
  2. The Independent 30 Sept, 14:33 UTC
  3. The Sydney Morning Herald 30 Sept, 09:00 UTC
  4. Hürriyet 30 Sept, 04:00 UTC
  5. Stuff 29 Sept, 18:32 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Spanish government agrees to allow evicted 87-year-old to return home, 27 to 29 Sept 2026, 59 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Mexico. Asia-Pacific 3: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand. Europe 2: Greece, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: 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
Greek, English, Spanish, Indonesian, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article To Vima, 29 Sept 2026, 10:07 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 10:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 23:00 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, Spain. 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
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
Continues Spanish government agrees to allow evicted 87-year-old to return home. Continued by Egy drámai kilakoltatás után elpattant a húr Spanyolországban, a tüntetéseknek egy parlamenti szavazás után már új tétjük van. 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
30 Sept 2026 126 8.68 7 7 4 4 4.0

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Started 29 Sept, 10:50 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 23:00 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • El Sol de México Mexico 29 Sept, 15:08 UTC
    Maricarmen Abascal, la mujer de 87 años que se convirtió en el símbolo de protestas por una vivienda digna en España

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Detik Indonesia 30 Sept, 23:00 UTC
    Ribuan Warga Protes Krisis Perumahan, Tenda Penuhi Puerta del Sol Madrid
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 30 Sept, 09:00 UTC
    They broke down an 87-year-old’s door with a battering ram. Then Spain erupted
  • Stuff New Zealand 29 Sept, 18:32 UTC
    They broke down her door and carried her out. Then Spain erupted

Europe 2 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 18:15 UTC
    Photos of Madrid protests after an 87-year-old woman’s eviction from her longtime home
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • What to know about Spain's housing protests sparked by the eviction of the 87-year-old Maricarmen 30 Sept, 14:33 UTC
  • To Vima Greece 29 Sept, 10:07 UTC
    Ισπανία: Η στεγαστική κρίση και η ανάκληση της έξωσης για την 87χρονη

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Hürriyet Turkey 30 Sept, 04:00 UTC
    Konut krizinin sembolü oldu... İspanya’da Maricarmen isyanı
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