- Coverage
- 54 outlets in 39 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 54 outlets, 8 state-owned, 2 public-service, 44 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
- Countries by region
- Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, United States. Asia-Pacific 13: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 13: Czechia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, 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, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
- Timeline
- Earliest article IRNA (fa), 21 Sept 2026, 22:07 UTC. First seen 21 Sept 2026, 22:10 UTC. Last seen 23 Sept 2026, 11:13 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 Asia-Pacific, North Korea. Topic Conflict & security. 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
- 19.13, at the end of the last day measured. 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
- Continued by North Korea test-fires upgraded multiple-rocket launcher system. 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.