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Michael Jordan Finals jersey sells for record $12.26 million

Rank
Ran: 23h
Updated: 3d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 4
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

MyJoyOnline Ghana · English 2 Oct, 02:45 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (1)

Read at MyJoyOnline

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: MyJoyOnline, 2 Oct, 02:45 UTC.
Second country: Philippines, with SunStar.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with SunStar.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%

First movers

MyJoyOnline 2 Oct, 02:45 UTC
SunStar +8h 33m
La Nación (AR) +21h 10m
Irish Independent +25h 45m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Michael Jordan 1998 Finals jersey sells for $12.26 million, 30 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 9 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 4 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Ghana. Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 1: Philippines. Europe 1: Ireland. 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: English, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article MyJoyOnline, 2 Oct 2026, 02:45 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 04:30 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 04:30 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 International. 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: 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 Michael Jordan 1998 Finals jersey sells for $12.26 million. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 04:30 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 04:30 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Covered by 4 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 1 outlet

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 1 outlet