Americas / United States · Politics

Trump awards National Medal of Science to Elon Musk

Rank
Running: 31h
Updated: 37m ago
Momentum: -13%
Outlets: 41
Regions: 5
Countries: 29
Languages: 14

+18

Fox News United States · English 7 Oct, 19:00 UTC

The earliest of 16 English reports

Read it also in Español (4) · +12 languages

Read at Fox News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Fox News, 7 Oct, 19:00 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with CNA.
Fastest hour: +7 outlets from 8 Oct, 00:38 UTC.
Now: 41 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 29 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

22%20%32%19%

Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 5%
Americas 9 outlets · 7 countries · 22%
Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 6 countries · 20%
Europe 13 outlets · 9 countries · 32%
Middle East 8 outlets · 5 countries · 19%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

Fox News 7 Oct, 19:00 UTC
CNA +23m
Bloomberg +1h 34m
Liberty Times +1h 36m
Asharq Al-Awsat +2h 41m

Latest arrivals

Le Monde 9 Oct, 01:51 UTC
VG 9 Oct, 00:42 UTC
RTP 8 Oct, 23:40 UTC
Berlingske 8 Oct, 23:33 UTC
Gulf News 8 Oct, 23:16 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 41 outlets in 29 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 41 outlets, 6 state-owned, 3 public-service, 32 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 7: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 6: Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam. Europe 9: Denmark, France, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia. Middle East 5: Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Fox News, 7 Oct 2026, 19:00 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 02:13 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 Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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: 7.90, 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.
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

7 Oct 2026 79 7.89 9 8 9 8 4.6

8 Oct 2026 34 12.57 37 27 29 21 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 19:10 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 02:13 UTC

Covered by 41 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
7 Oct 2026	79	7.89	9	8	9	8	4.6
8 Oct 2026	34	12.57	37	27	29	21	4.6

Covered by 41 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 9 outlets

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

Europe 13 outlets

Middle East 8 outlets

International 1 outlet