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China sends pandas to US as diplomatic gesture

Rank
Ran
32h
Updated
9d ago
Final
Outlets
42
Regions
4
Countries
26
Languages
19

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Where it travelled

The 26 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

31%19%36%14%

  • Americas 13 outlets · 7 countries · 31%
  • Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 6 countries · 19%
  • Europe 15 outlets · 10 countries · 36%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 3 countries · 14%

The figures

Coverage
42 outlets in 26 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 42 outlets, 3 state-owned, 1 public-service, 38 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 7: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 6: India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 10: Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Israel, Saudi Arabia, 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
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article G1, 24 Sept 2026, 15:14 UTC. First seen 24 Sept 2026, 15:30 UTC. Last seen 26 Sept 2026, 00:13 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, United States. Topic Politics. 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
5.19, at the end of the last day measured. 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
Continued by China sends two giant pandas to US zoo. 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
24 Sept 2026 (partial) 30 28.40 30 19 30 19 3.3
25 Sept 2026 32 26.65 42 26 14 11 3.3
26 Sept 2026 145 5.19 42 26 1 1 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 24 Sept, 15:30 UTC · Updated 26 Sept, 00:13 UTC

Covered by 42 outlets

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Americas 13 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • CBS News United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CNN Brasil Brazil
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Comercio (EC) Ecuador
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • Metrópoles Brazil
  • RPP Peru

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

  • FNN Japan
  • Kun.uz Uzbekistan
  • Liberty Times Taiwan
  • NDTV India
  • Thairath Thailand
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India

Europe 15 outlets

  • Adevărul Romania
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • HVG Hungary
  • iDNES Czechia
  • Kommersant Russia
  • LRT Lithuania
  • Lrytas Lithuania
  • N1 Serbia
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland
  • Postimees Estonia
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia
  • TASS Russia
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 6 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • Cumhuriyet Turkey
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel

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