Americas / Brazil · Politics

Brazil's presidential election between Lula and Bolsonaro

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 24
Regions: 5
Countries: 20
Languages: 8

+10

Buenos Aires Times Argentina · English 28 Sept, 14:43 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Español (9) · +6 languages

Read at Buenos Aires Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Buenos Aires Times, 28 Sept, 14:43 UTC.
Second country: Costa Rica, with La Nación (CR).
Second region: Europe, with RTP.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 12:26 UTC.
Last article: 24 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 20 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

50%17%25%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 4%
Americas 12 outlets · 8 countries · 50%
Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 17%
Europe 6 outlets · 6 countries · 25%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 4%

First movers

Buenos Aires Times 28 Sept, 14:43 UTC
La Nación (CR) +1h 7m
Expreso (EC) +3h
El Espectador +4h 17m
RTP +5h 37m

Last to join

Clarín 30 Sept, 14:01 UTC
The Guardian 30 Sept, 13:24 UTC
Der Standard 30 Sept, 13:00 UTC
Infobae 30 Sept, 12:33 UTC
Cubadebate 29 Sept, 19:24 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Brazil election campaign with Trump's influence and media focus, 26 to 28 Sept 2026, 17 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 24 outlets in 20 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 24 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 21 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 4: India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. Europe 6: Austria, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Portugal, 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: German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Buenos Aires Times, 28 Sept 2026, 14:43 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 16:30 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 14:01 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 Americas, Brazil. 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 Brazil election campaign with Trump's influence and media focus. Continued by Brazil holds close presidential election between Lula and Bolsonaro; Brazilian presidential election marked by record voter dissatisfaction; Eleições no Brasil. Vitória de Flávio Bolsonaro pode colocar Chega como canal privilegiado com Lisboa; Giro en las elecciones de Brasil: la estrategia de Lula para evitar debate con Flávio Bolsonaro a días de votar; Au Brésil, les résultats de Lula ne se traduisent pas forcément en voix; «Si Lula quitte la scène, nous sommes perdus» : au Brésil, l’inquiétude des banlieues populaires du Nordeste avant la présidentielle; The Guardian view on Lula v the Bolsonaros: the decision of Brazilian voters will affect us all | Editorial; Au Brésil, Lula et Flavio Bolsonaro éclipsent les autres candidats à la présidentielle; Brazil elections: Can Lula’s anti-poverty record win over voters?. 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

28 Sept 2026 142 7.53 6 6 6 6 3.3

29 Sept 2026 69 16.79 20 18 16 15 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 84 11.96 24 20 5 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 16:30 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 14:01 UTC

Covered by 24 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	142	7.53	6	6	6	6	3.3
29 Sept 2026	69	16.79	20	18	16	15	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	84	11.96	24	20	5	3	4.0

Covered by 24 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 12 outlets

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

Europe 6 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet