Europe / United Kingdom · Technology

MI5 warns UK academics over Chinese espionage through research funding

Rank
Ran: 31h
Updated: 4d ago
Final
Outlets: 29
Regions: 4
Countries: 23
Languages: 16

+13

Bloomberg United States · English 30 Sept, 13:00 UTC

The earliest of 10 English reports

Read it also in Português (3) · +14 languages

Read at Bloomberg

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Bloomberg, 30 Sept, 13:00 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Guardian.
Second region: Europe, with The Guardian.
Fastest hour: +7 outlets from 30 Sept, 13:38 UTC.
Last article: 29 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 23 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

28%41%21%

Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 10%
Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 7 countries · 28%
Europe 12 outlets · 9 countries · 41%
Middle East 6 outlets · 5 countries · 21%

First movers

Bloomberg 30 Sept, 13:00 UTC
The Guardian +1m
The Independent +17m
G1 +18m
ERT +39m

Last to join

The Asahi Shimbun 1 Oct, 21:00 UTC
Republika 1 Oct, 18:02 UTC
Hankyoreh 1 Oct, 07:40 UTC
TVN24 1 Oct, 06:10 UTC
The Business Standard 1 Oct, 04:05 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 29 outlets in 23 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 29 outlets, 4 state-owned, 3 public-service, 22 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 7: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. Europe 9: Czechia, France, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Iran, Qatar, Syria, 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, Czech, Greek, English, Persian, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Bloomberg, 30 Sept 2026, 13:00 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 13:10 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 21:00 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 Technology. 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.
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 43 20.07 21 16 21 16 4.0

1 Oct 2026 30 25.56 29 23 6 6 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 13:10 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 21:00 UTC

Covered by 29 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
30 Sept 2026	43	20.07	21	16	21	16	4.0
1 Oct 2026	30	25.56	29	23	6	6	4.0

Covered by 29 outlets

Americas 3 outlets

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

Europe 12 outlets

Middle East 6 outlets