Europe / United Kingdom · Conflict & Security

Royal Navy sailor charged with spying for Russia

Rank: 47
Running: 20h
Updated: 4h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 43
Regions: 5
Countries: 31
Languages: 20

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Sky News, 8 Oct, 06:51 UTC.
Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +10 outlets from 8 Oct, 07:47 UTC.
Now: 43 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 31 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

74%14%

Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 5%
Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 5%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Europe 32 outlets · 21 countries · 74%
Middle East 6 outlets · 6 countries · 14%

First movers

Sky News 8 Oct, 06:51 UTC
The Independent +13m
The Guardian +23m
BBC News +27m
Bloomberg +34m

Latest arrivals

Kyiv Independent 8 Oct, 23:42 UTC
Digi24 8 Oct, 18:56 UTC
South China Morning Post 8 Oct, 18:11 UTC
HVG 8 Oct, 16:56 UTC
Kommersant 8 Oct, 15:50 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 43 outlets in 31 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 43 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 public-service, 36 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Hong Kong. Europe 21: Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Iran, Israel, Qatar, 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article Sky News, 8 Oct 2026, 06:51 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 07:00 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 23:42 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 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: 3.73, 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: Merged from 3 stories Royal Navy serviceman charged with National Security Act offences; Royal Navy member charged with ‘spying for foreign power’; Un miembro en activo de la Marina británica, acusado de espionaje. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

8 Oct 2026 16 22.40 42 30 42 30 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 07:00 UTC · Updated 23:42 UTC

Merged from 3 stories

Covered by 43 outlets

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Merged from 3 stories

Covered by 43 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 32 outlets

Middle East 6 outlets