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German Chancellor Merz seeks party backing ahead of regional elections

Rank
Ran
5d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
39
Regions
5
Countries
24
Languages
12

+14

Where it travelled

The 24 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

15%64%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 6 outlets · 3 countries · 15%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 10%
  • Europe 25 outlets · 15 countries · 64%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 1 country · 5%
  • International 1 outlet · 3%

The figures

Coverage
39 outlets in 24 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 39 outlets, 8 public-service, 31 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 3: Argentina, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 4: Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan. Europe 15: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: 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
Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Romanian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Reuters, 15 Sept 2026, 12:31 UTC. First seen 15 Sept 2026, 13:40 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 14:01 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 Politics. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
15.87, at the end of the last day measured. 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 German Chancellor Merz vows to continue after CDU election defeats; German voters shift away from centrist parties in regional elections. 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
16 Sept 2026 128 7.80 10 7 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 145 8.80 15 10 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 107 11.63 21 14 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 57 17.49 24 15 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 59 15.87 39 24 23 17 1.4 → 2.0

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Started 15 Sept, 13:40 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 14:01 UTC

Covered by 39 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Punch Nigeria

Americas 6 outlets

  • Associated Press United States
  • Bloomberg United States
  • CBS News United States
  • El Comercio Peru
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan
  • The Japan Times Japan

Europe 25 outlets

  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El Mundo Spain
  • El País Spain
  • ERT Greece
  • Financial Times United Kingdom
  • France 24 France
  • La Repubblica Italy
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Monde France
  • Le Soir Belgium
  • LRT Lithuania
  • N1 Serbia
  • NOS Netherlands
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • RTÉ Ireland
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia

International 1 outlet

  • INTLPolitico Europe International

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