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British broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86

Rank
Ran: 22h
Updated: 4d ago
Final
Outlets: 9
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

Sky News United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 15:04 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Français (2)

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Sky News, 30 Sept, 15:04 UTC.
Second country: Ireland, with Irish Independent.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 30 Sept, 17:54 UTC.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Malay Mail.
Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

89%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Europe 8 outlets · 3 countries · 89%

First movers

Sky News 30 Sept, 15:04 UTC
The Telegraph +2h 50m
The Independent +3h 4m
Irish Independent +3h 4m
RTÉ +3h 9m

Last to join

Le Figaro 1 Oct, 16:58 UTC
Malay Mail 1 Oct, 01:16 UTC
Le Monde 30 Sept, 23:37 UTC
BBC News 30 Sept, 21:30 UTC
RTÉ 30 Sept, 18:12 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 2 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 3: France, Ireland, 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, French.
Timeline: Earliest article Sky News, 30 Sept 2026, 15:04 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 18:00 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 16:58 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, United Kingdom. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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

30 Sept 2026 397 3.31 6 2 6 2 4.0

1 Oct 2026 312 3.89 9 4 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 18:00 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 16:58 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Malay Mail Malaysia 1 Oct, 01:16 UTC
UK broadcaster and Childline founder Esther Rantzen dies at 86

Europe 8 outlets

Le Figaro France 1 Oct, 16:58 UTC
Royaume-Uni : la présentatrice et militante pour l'aide à mourir Esther Rantzen est décédée d’un cancer du poumon
Le Monde France 30 Sept, 23:37 UTC
Esther Rantzen, journaliste et militante pour l’aide à mourir au Royaume-Uni, est morte à l’âge de 86 ans
BBC News United Kingdom 30 Sept, 21:30 UTC
Veteran broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 19:42 UTC
British broadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen dies at 86
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Veteran broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86 30 Sept, 18:53 UTC
- Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86 after battle with lung cancer 30 Sept, 18:07 UTC
RTÉ Ireland 30 Sept, 18:12 UTC
British broadcaster Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
Irish Independent Ireland 30 Sept, 18:08 UTC
TV presenter and assisted dying campaigner Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
The Telegraph United Kingdom 30 Sept, 17:54 UTC
Esther Rantzen dies aged 86 following battle with lung cancer
Sky News United Kingdom 30 Sept, 15:04 UTC
Broadcaster and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen dies

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
30 Sept 2026	397	3.31	6	2	6	2	4.0
1 Oct 2026	312	3.89	9	4	2	2	4.0