Europe / United Kingdom · Politics

Prince Andrew sues police over Epstein-related search warrants

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 8h ago
Final
Outlets: 76
Regions: 5
Countries: 42
Languages: 18

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Stuff, 4 Oct, 21:16 UTC.
Second country: Australia, with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Second region: Europe, with Kommersant.
Fastest hour: +24 outlets from 5 Oct, 08:30 UTC.
Last article: 76 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 42 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%22%51%

Africa 5 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
Americas 10 outlets · 5 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 17 outlets · 11 countries · 22%
Europe 39 outlets · 20 countries · 51%
Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 7%

First movers

Stuff 4 Oct, 21:16 UTC
The Sydney Morning Herald +1h 17m
SBS News +4h 2m
Kommersant +5h 9m
The Business Standard +7h 14m

Last to join

Iltalehti 6 Oct, 15:29 UTC
Media Indonesia 6 Oct, 03:25 UTC
Nationwide News Network 5 Oct, 23:03 UTC
Estadão 5 Oct, 18:25 UTC
Global News 5 Oct, 15:51 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 76 outlets in 42 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 76 outlets, 2 state-owned, 10 public-service, 64 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Egypt, South Africa. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 11: Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand. Europe 20: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Israel, Qatar, 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: Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai.
Timeline: Earliest article Stuff, 4 Oct 2026, 21:16 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 20:30 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 Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Politics. 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: 0.17, 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: Continued by Ex prince Andrew’s return from the wilderness, amid 'desperate' legal action. 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

4 Oct 2026 372 2.42 2 2 2 2 4.1

5 Oct 2026 6 33.63 73 40 73 40 4.1

6 Oct 2026 136 5.80 76 42 3 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 21:20 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 20:30 UTC

Covered by 76 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
4 Oct 2026	372	2.42	2	2	2	2	4.1
5 Oct 2026	6	33.63	73	40	73	40	4.1
6 Oct 2026	136	5.80	76	42	3	3	4.6

Covered by 76 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 10 outlets

Asia-Pacific 17 outlets

Europe 39 outlets

Middle East 5 outlets