Europe / Germany · Politics

AfD politician elected as German state parliament president

Rank
Ran: 42h
Updated: 8h ago
Final
Outlets: 30
Regions: 2
Countries: 17
Languages: 12

Politico Europe International · English 6 Oct, 03:30 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (10) · +10 languages

Read at Politico Europe

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Die Zeit, 5 Oct, 02:00 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Der Standard.
Second region: International, with Politico Europe.
Fastest hour: +11 outlets from 6 Oct, 10:42 UTC.
Last article: 30 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 17 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

93%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 4%
Europe 28 outlets · 15 countries · 93%
International 1 outlet · 3%

First movers

Die Zeit 5 Oct, 02:00 UTC
Der Standard +13h 59m
Tagesschau +24h 18m
Politico Europe +25h 29m
Financial Times +26h

Last to join

NRC 6 Oct, 18:17 UTC
TASS 6 Oct, 14:16 UTC
Rai News 6 Oct, 13:19 UTC
Gazeta Wyborcza 6 Oct, 13:00 UTC
iDNES 6 Oct, 12:01 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 30 outlets in 17 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 30 outlets, 1 state-owned, 7 public-service, 22 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 15: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish.
Timeline: Earliest article Die Zeit, 5 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 02:10 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 20:29 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: 1.07, 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.
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

6 Oct 2026 32 16.16 30 17 30 17 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 02:10 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 20:29 UTC

Covered by 30 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Infobae Argentina 6 Oct, 06:20 UTC
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Europe 28 outlets

International 1 outlet

Politico Europe International 6 Oct, 03:30 UTC
Der erste Machtbeweis der AfD in Magdeburg