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Evan Gershkovich released after 16 months in Russian prison

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 5d ago
Closed
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 6
Languages: 5

The Wall Street Journal United States · English 28 Sept, 13:07 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Dansk (1) · +3 languages

Read at The Wall Street Journal

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Wall Street Journal, 28 Sept, 13:07 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with BBC News.
Second region: Europe, with BBC News.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

43%57%

Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%
Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 57%

First movers

The Wall Street Journal 28 Sept, 13:07 UTC
New York Times +14h 54m
BBC News +23h 36m
Digi24 +25h 40m
Prensa Libre +32h 9m

Last to join

Die Zeit 30 Sept, 10:50 UTC
Berlingske 30 Sept, 07:40 UTC
Prensa Libre 29 Sept, 21:16 UTC
Digi24 29 Sept, 14:47 UTC
BBC News 29 Sept, 12:43 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Guatemala, United States. Europe 4: Denmark, Germany, Romania, 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: Danish, German, English, Spanish, Romanian.
Timeline: Earliest article The Wall Street Journal, 28 Sept 2026, 13:07 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 13:10 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 10:50 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, Russia. 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: Continued by "UŠLA JE GRUPA MASKIRANIH FSB-OVACA I REKLA DA JE STO REZERVISAN" Američki novinar opisao kako je završio u ruskom zatvoru: Namamljen sam u zamku; Evan Gershkovich details Russian arrest, reveals moment that nearly broke him during wrongful detention; 500 dienų Rusijos kalėjime praleidęs Gershkovichas: atsigauti užtruko beveik tiek pat. 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

29 Sept 2026 277 4.54 5 4 4 4 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 13:10 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 10:50 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

Prensa Libre Guatemala 29 Sept, 21:16 UTC
“Me tendieron una trampa”: el periodista estadounidense que fue detenido por hombres enmascarados y pasó 16 meses en una cárcel de Rusia
New York Times United States 29 Sept, 04:01 UTC
The Russian Prison That Evan Gershkovich Carried Home
The Wall Street Journal United States 28 Sept, 13:07 UTC
How Evan Gershkovich Kept Reporting From Inside Russia’s Prison System

Europe 4 outlets

Die Zeit Germany 30 Sept, 10:50 UTC
Evan Gershkovich: »Man hat mich nicht gefoltert«
Berlingske Denmark 30 Sept, 07:40 UTC
Did Putin Really Think I Was a Spy?
Digi24 Romania 29 Sept, 14:47 UTC
„Mi-au întins o capcană”. Mărturiile jurnalistului american Evan Gershkovich despre momentul arestării sale de către agenții FSB
BBC News United Kingdom 29 Sept, 14:45 UTC
Watch: US journalist Evan Gershkovich describes being detained by Russian agents
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- 'I was lured into a trap': Evan Gershkovich on moment that led to 16 months in Russian jail 29 Sept, 12:43 UTC