Africa / Somalia · Shipping & Trade

Five crew killed during Somali pirate hijacked tanker rescue

Rank
Ran: 40h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 15
Regions: 4
Countries: 7
Languages: 1

The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 29 Sept, 10:11 UTC

The earliest of 15 English reports

The only language so far · English, 15 reports

Read at The Express Tribune

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 29 Sept, 10:11 UTC.
Second country: Israel, with The Jerusalem Post.
Second region: Middle East, with The Jerusalem Post.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 13:25 UTC.
Last article: 15 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%60%20%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 9 outlets · 2 countries · 60%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 7%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 20%

First movers

The Express Tribune 29 Sept, 10:11 UTC
ARY News +4h 51m
The Jerusalem Post +12h 9m
Daily Times +12h 30m
Business Recorder +19h 25m

Last to join

Hiiraan Online 1 Oct, 07:35 UTC
Hindustan Times 1 Oct, 03:41 UTC
Marine Insight 30 Sept, 13:33 UTC
Arab News 30 Sept, 13:27 UTC
Dawn 30 Sept, 13:25 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 15 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 15 outlets, 15 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Somalia, South Africa. Asia-Pacific 2: India, Pakistan. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Israel, Saudi Arabia. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 29 Sept 2026, 10:11 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 15:20 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 07:35 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 Africa, Somalia. Topic Shipping & trade. 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 Pakistani nationals killed and injured in pirate attack transferred to hospital in Somalia. 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

30 Sept 2026 276 4.58 13 6 10 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 15:20 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 07:35 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 15 outlets

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Covered by 15 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 9 outlets

Europe 1 outlet

Middle East 3 outlets