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Former American Idol singer Caleb Flynn tried for wife's murder

Rank
Ran
33h
Updated
5d ago
Closed
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
6
Languages
1

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 28 Sept, 20:51 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

The only language so far · English, 7 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 33 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 28 Sept, 20:51 UTC.
  2. Second country: Canada, with CTV News.
  3. Second region: Americas, with CTV News.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 22:20 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

34 of 34 hours

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

The regions

14%43%29%14%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. The Independent 28 Sept, 20:51 UTC
  2. CTV News +1h 29m
  3. ABC News +2h 26m
  4. CBS News +5h 12m
  5. Stuff +23h 11m

Last to join

  1. Punch 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC
  2. South China Morning Post 29 Sept, 23:32 UTC
  3. Stuff 29 Sept, 20:02 UTC
  4. CBS News 29 Sept, 02:03 UTC
  5. ABC News 28 Sept, 23:17 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 2: Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Hong Kong, New Zealand. Europe 1: 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.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 28 Sept 2026, 20:51 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 21:00 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 06:10 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 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
28 Sept 2026 274 3.81 3 3 3 3 3.3
29 Sept 2026 187 6.83 6 5 4 4 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 21:00 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Punch Nigeria 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC
    Pastor who sang on American Idol found guilty of murdering wife

Americas 3 outlets

  • CBS News United States 29 Sept, 02:03 UTC
    Former "American Idol" singer's murder trial moves to closing arguments
  • ABC News United States 28 Sept, 23:17 UTC
    Caleb Flynn denies killing wife in interview played in court during murder trial
  • CTV News Canada 28 Sept, 22:20 UTC
    Former 'American Idol' singer Caleb Flynn is on trial in wife's killing. He says a burglar did it

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 29 Sept, 23:32 UTC
    Ex-American Idol singer Caleb Flynn convicted of fatally shooting his wife
  • Stuff New Zealand 29 Sept, 20:02 UTC
    Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn convicted of fatally shooting his wife

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 29 Sept, 16:54 UTC
    Case goes to jury in trial of former 'American Idol' singer charged in wife's killing
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    • Former 'American Idol' singer Caleb Flynn is on trial in wife's killing. He says a burglar did it 28 Sept, 20:51 UTC
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