Europe / Germany · Conflict & Security

Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason

Rank
Running: 21h
Updated: 50m ago
Momentum: Holding
Outlets: 146
Regions: 5
Countries: 59
Languages: 30

+48

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 6 Oct, 05:56 UTC.
Second country: Germany, with Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Second region: Europe, with Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Fastest hour: +43 outlets from 6 Oct, 08:19 UTC.
Now: 146 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 59 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

14%55%

Africa 11 outlets · 6 countries · 8%
Americas 16 outlets · 6 countries · 11%
Asia-Pacific 21 outlets · 12 countries · 14%
Europe 80 outlets · 26 countries · 55%
Middle East 15 outlets · 8 countries · 10%
International 3 outlets · 2%

First movers

The Express Tribune 6 Oct, 05:56 UTC
Süddeutsche Zeitung +2h 3m
Tagesschau +2h 10m
Deutsche Welle +2h 13m
Der Spiegel +2h 14m

Latest arrivals

Irish Independent 7 Oct, 04:30 UTC
Media Indonesia 7 Oct, 04:16 UTC
Fox News 7 Oct, 03:50 UTC
Detik 7 Oct, 03:02 UTC
Gulf News 7 Oct, 02:55 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 146 outlets in 59 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 146 outlets, 3 state-owned, 14 public-service, 129 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 6: Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 12: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 26: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 8: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 6 Oct 2026, 05:56 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 08:10 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:30 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, Germany. Topic Conflict & security. 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: 10.26, as of now. 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

6 Oct 2026 3 49.29 137 56 137 56 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 08:10 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 04:30 UTC

Covered by 146 outlets

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Covered by 146 outlets

Africa 11 outlets

Americas 16 outlets

Asia-Pacific 21 outlets

Europe 80 outlets

Middle East 15 outlets

International 3 outlets