Americas / United States · Conflict & Security

Fort Hood shooter sentenced to execution by firing squad

Rank
Running: 24h
Updated: 4h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 7
Regions: 4
Countries: 6
Languages: 1

Merged into Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan executed by firing squad

BBC News United Kingdom · English 6 Oct, 02:22 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

The only language so far · English, 7 reports

Read at BBC News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: BBC News, 6 Oct, 02:22 UTC.
Second country: Qatar, with Al Jazeera.
Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 6 Oct, 14:13 UTC.
Now: 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

29%14%43%14%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

BBC News 6 Oct, 02:22 UTC
Al Jazeera +7h 59m
Nile Post +11h 51m
Irish Independent +12h 30m
Nigerian Tribune +20h 13m

Latest arrivals

The Independent 7 Oct, 01:41 UTC
CBS News 6 Oct, 23:53 UTC
Nigerian Tribune 6 Oct, 22:35 UTC
Irish Independent 6 Oct, 14:52 UTC
Nile Post 6 Oct, 14:13 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, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Nigeria, Uganda. Americas 1: United States. Europe 2: Ireland, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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 BBC News, 6 Oct 2026, 02:22 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 05:10 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 01:41 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 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: 1.30, 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.
Chain: Merged into Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan executed by firing squad. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 6 Oct, 05:10 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 01:41 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Covered by 7 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 1 outlet

Europe 3 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet