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Manchester City found guilty of Premier League financial breaches

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 3d ago
Final
Outlets: 30
Regions: 5
Countries: 25
Languages: 13

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The Economist United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 15:51 UTC

The earliest of 13 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (3) · +11 languages

Read at The Economist

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Der Standard, 30 Sept, 15:00 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Economist.
Second region: Middle East, with The National.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 2 Oct, 11:10 UTC.
Last article: 30 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 25 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%17%56%

Africa 4 outlets · 4 countries · 13%
Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 5 countries · 17%
Europe 17 outlets · 12 countries · 56%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%

First movers

Der Standard 30 Sept, 15:00 UTC
The Economist +51m
The Independent +59m
RTL Nieuws +2h 38m
Sky News +4h 30m

Last to join

PressAfrik 2 Oct, 12:45 UTC
Interfax 2 Oct, 12:15 UTC
N1 2 Oct, 11:33 UTC
CNA 2 Oct, 11:22 UTC
Iltalehti 2 Oct, 11:10 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Premier League finds Manchester City guilty of 115 financial charges, 28 to 30 Sept 2026, 34 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 30 outlets in 25 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 30 outlets, 2 state-owned, 3 public-service, 25 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia. Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 5: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore. Europe 12: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Turkey, 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, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline: Earliest article Der Standard, 30 Sept 2026, 15:00 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 15:10 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 15:00 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 Business & economy. 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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: Continues Premier League finds Manchester City guilty of 115 financial charges. Continued by İngiliz futbolunda Arap finans skandalı; Manchester City appeals financial rule violations charges. 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

30 Sept 2026 141 8.08 8 6 8 6 4.0

1 Oct 2026 53 17.10 19 16 10 10 4.0

2 Oct 2026 48 16.28 30 25 18 17 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 15:10 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 15:00 UTC

Covered by 30 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
30 Sept 2026	141	8.08	8	6	8	6	4.0
1 Oct 2026	53	17.10	19	16	10	10	4.0
2 Oct 2026	48	16.28	30	25	18	17	4.0

Covered by 30 outlets

Africa 4 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

Europe 17 outlets

Middle East 2 outlets