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UK government defends Manchester City after Burnham criticism

Rank
Ran
47h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
5
Countries
7
Languages
2

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BBC News United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 16:01 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 48 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: BBC News, 30 Sept, 16:01 UTC.
  2. Second country: Malaysia, with Free Malaysia Today.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
  4. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

48 of 48 hours

Earlier Later

The 7 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

13%13%13%37%12%12%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 37%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%
  • International 1 outlet · 12%

First movers

  1. BBC News 30 Sept, 16:01 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today +4h 54m
  3. INTLPolitico Europe +17h 35m
  4. Bloomberg +24h 59m
  5. MyJoyOnline +30h 22m

Last to join

  1. The Independent 2 Oct, 15:47 UTC
  2. Der Standard 2 Oct, 12:22 UTC
  3. Anadolu Agency 2 Oct, 01:13 UTC
  4. MyJoyOnline 1 Oct, 22:23 UTC
  5. Bloomberg 1 Oct, 17:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Ghana. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 2: Austria, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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
German, English.
Timeline
Earliest article BBC News, 30 Sept 2026, 16:01 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 16:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 15:47 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
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.
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
1 Oct 2026 210 5.87 5 5 4 4 4.0
2 Oct 2026 246 4.81 8 7 4 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 16:30 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 15:47 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • MyJoyOnline Ghana 1 Oct, 22:23 UTC
    Man City not ‘above the rules’, says No 10 after backlash to Burnham remarks

Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 2 Oct, 15:45 UTC
    Manchester City Crisis Could Be Andy Burnham’s Biggest Test Yet
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Andy Burnham’s Manchester City Remarks Rile Government Officials 1 Oct, 17:00 UTC

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 30 Sept, 20:54 UTC
    PM Burnham says he would be very concerned if Man City owners sold club

Europe 3 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 2 Oct, 15:47 UTC
    Tell us about all your meetings with Manchester City’s owners, Andy Burnham urged
  • Der Standard Austria 2 Oct, 12:22 UTC
    Manchester City reicht Berufung ein - Kritik an Premier Burnham
  • BBC News United Kingdom 1 Oct, 22:22 UTC
    Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • Burnham's Man City comments 'completely out of touch', Tories say 1 Oct, 15:38 UTC
    • Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches 30 Sept, 16:01 UTC

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 2 Oct, 01:13 UTC
    Downing Street says no suggestion Manchester City is ‘above rules’

International 1 outlet

  • INTLPolitico Europe International 1 Oct, 09:35 UTC
    Burnham ‘really concerned’ if Man City’s UAE owners sell club after breaking rules
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