Europe / United Kingdom · Culture

Jeffrey Archer, British bestselling author and politician, dies at 86

Rank
Running: 32h
Updated: 6h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 81
Regions: 5
Countries: 43
Languages: 23

+33

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Sky News, 5 Oct, 14:19 UTC.
Second country: Mexico, with El Sol de México.
Second region: Americas, with El Sol de México.
Fastest hour: +13 outlets from 5 Oct, 22:13 UTC.
Now: 81 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 43 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

15%68%

Africa 4 outlets · 4 countries · 5%
Americas 6 outlets · 4 countries · 7%
Asia-Pacific 12 outlets · 6 countries · 15%
Europe 55 outlets · 25 countries · 68%
Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 5%

First movers

Sky News 5 Oct, 14:19 UTC
El Sol de México +5h 49m
Irish Independent +6h 13m
The Independent +6h 15m
BBC News +6h 20m

Latest arrivals

Mothership 6 Oct, 17:44 UTC
Õhtuleht 6 Oct, 15:30 UTC
Rappler 6 Oct, 13:38 UTC
Blic 6 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Observador 6 Oct, 07:52 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 81 outlets in 43 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 81 outlets, 1 state-owned, 10 public-service, 70 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico. Asia-Pacific 6: Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore. Europe 25: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. 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, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish.
Timeline: Earliest article Sky News, 5 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 20:40 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 23:15 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, United Kingdom. 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: 1.25, 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 from 2 stories British bestselling author Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86; British bestselling author Jeffrey Archer dies at 86. 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.
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

5 Oct 2026 15 23.42 28 20 28 20 4.1

6 Oct 2026 9 28.75 80 43 52 32 4.6

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 5 Oct, 20:40 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 23:15 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 81 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
5 Oct 2026	15	23.42	28	20	28	20	4.1
6 Oct 2026	9	28.75	80	43	52	32	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 81 outlets

Africa 4 outlets

Americas 6 outlets

Asia-Pacific 12 outlets

Europe 55 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets