- Coverage
- 35 outlets in 25 countries, across 5 regions, 6 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 35 outlets, 4 state-owned, 2 public-service, 29 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
- Countries by region
- Africa 1: Algeria. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 6: Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam. Europe 9: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Danish, German, English, French, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Vietnamese.
- Timeline
- Earliest article Gulf News, 6 Oct 2026, 10:21 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 10:31 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 08:45 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 Middle East, Oman. Topic Shipping & Trade. 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
- 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.
- On the map
- Best rank 18, 6 Oct 2026, 13:10 UTC. Drawn from 6 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC to 8 Oct 2026, 04:50 UTC. Peak score 12.44, 6 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC. The map as it stood at each ten-minute run: the rank is the story’s place among the stories drawn, 1 the largest tile, and the span is from the first run that drew it to the last. Kept for every story that reached the map since 1 October 2026, before the story is deleted from the live table.
- Chain
- Merged from 3 stories Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz, crew injured; Indian crew injured in Strait of Hormuz tanker strike; Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz. 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.