Europe / Spain · Politics

Spain lifts arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 1h ago
Closed
Outlets: 57
Regions: 4
Countries: 29
Languages: 14

+19

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 6 Oct, 12:00 UTC

The earliest of 8 English reports

Read it also in Español (13) · +12 languages

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El País, 5 Oct, 03:30 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +17 outlets from 6 Oct, 10:40 UTC.
Last article: 57 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 29 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

21%70%

Americas 12 outlets · 9 countries · 21%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Europe 40 outlets · 16 countries · 70%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 7%

First movers

El País 5 Oct, 03:30 UTC
ABC +19h 40m
La Vanguardia +24h 30m
Infobae +30h 34m
VRT NWS +31h

Last to join

El Espectador 6 Oct, 20:02 UTC
CTV News 6 Oct, 19:30 UTC
Al Jazeera 6 Oct, 18:58 UTC
ERT 6 Oct, 17:49 UTC
Arab News 6 Oct, 17:48 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 57 outlets in 29 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 57 outlets, 2 state-owned, 11 public-service, 44 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 1: Hong Kong. Europe 16: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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: Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article El País, 5 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 04:10 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 03:45 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, Spain. 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: 3.61, 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 2 stories Spanish court lifts arrest warrant for Catalan leader Puigdemont; Spanish Constitutional Court clears path for Puigdemont amnesty. 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

6 Oct 2026 14 24.06 56 29 56 29 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 04:10 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 03:45 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Covered by 57 outlets

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Americas 12 outlets

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 57 outlets

Americas 12 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 40 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets