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Haiti postpones elections indefinitely amid gang violence crisis

Rank
Running
13h
Updated
27m ago
Momentum
Holding
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
4

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Jamaica Observer Jamaica · English 6 Oct, 14:35 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Dansk (2) · Español (1) · Português (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 18 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: El Sol de México, 6 Oct, 10:58 UTC.
  2. Second country: Jamaica, with Jamaica Observer.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Berlingske.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 7 Oct, 00:51 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

19 of 19 hours

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The regions

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

First movers

  1. El Sol de México 6 Oct, 10:58 UTC
  2. Jamaica Observer +3h 38m
  3. Estadão +4h 28m
  4. Berlingske +13h 54m
  5. France 24 +14h 8m

Latest arrivals

  1. Politiken 7 Oct, 04:52 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today 7 Oct, 01:20 UTC
  3. France 24 7 Oct, 01:06 UTC
  4. Berlingske 7 Oct, 00:51 UTC
  5. Estadão 6 Oct, 15:25 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 2: Denmark, France. 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
Danish, English, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article El Sol de México, 6 Oct 2026, 10:58 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:52 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, Haiti. Topic Politics. 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
2.90, 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 239 3.87 3 3 3 3 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 15:30 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 04:52 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • Estadão Brazil 6 Oct, 15:25 UTC
    País mais pobre das Américas e afundado em crise, Haiti adia eleições por tempo indeterminado
  • Jamaica Observer Jamaica 6 Oct, 14:35 UTC
    Crisis-stricken Haiti postpones elections
  • El Sol de México Mexico 6 Oct, 10:58 UTC
    El Consejo Electoral de Haití posterga de manera indefinida las elecciones

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 7 Oct, 01:20 UTC
    Crisis-stricken Haiti postpones elections

Europe 3 outlets

  • Politiken Denmark 7 Oct, 04:52 UTC
    Kriseramt Haiti udskyder præsidentvalg på ubestemt tid
  • France 24 France 7 Oct, 01:06 UTC
    Haiti postpones elections indefinitely as gang violence hampers preparations
  • Berlingske Denmark 7 Oct, 00:51 UTC
    Kriseramt Haiti udskyder præsidentvalg på ubestemt tid
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