Europe / United Kingdom · Conflict & Security

UK police release suspects in RAF base security incident

Rank
Ran: 43h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 44
Regions: 5
Countries: 33
Languages: 15

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 28 Sept, 14:48 UTC

The earliest of 24 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (3) · +13 languages

Read at The Independent

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Independent, 28 Sept, 14:48 UTC.
Second country: Brazil, with CNN Brasil.
Second region: Americas, with CNN Brasil.
Fastest hour: +13 outlets from 28 Sept, 14:48 UTC.
Last article: 44 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 33 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

20%23%36%14%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 5%
Americas 9 outlets · 5 countries · 20%
Asia-Pacific 10 outlets · 8 countries · 23%
Europe 16 outlets · 13 countries · 36%
Middle East 6 outlets · 4 countries · 14%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

The Independent 28 Sept, 14:48 UTC
CNN Brasil +3m
Bloomberg +13m
France 24 +17m
Estadão +17m

Last to join

The Asahi Shimbun 30 Sept, 10:05 UTC
Taipei Times 30 Sept, 00:00 UTC
Clarín 29 Sept, 11:40 UTC
Punch 29 Sept, 11:10 UTC
ABC News 29 Sept, 09:33 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 44 outlets in 33 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 44 outlets, 3 state-owned, 4 public-service, 37 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Kenya, Nigeria. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 8: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan. Europe 13: Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: 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: German, English, Spanish, Persian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Independent, 28 Sept 2026, 14:48 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 14:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 10:05 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: 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.
Chain: Continued by UK says Iran involved in RAF Fairford air base incident. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

28 Sept 2026 28 30.47 28 22 28 22 3.3

29 Sept 2026 9 45.16 42 32 18 16 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 65 14.51 44 33 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 14:50 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 10:05 UTC

Covered by 44 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	28	30.47	28	22	28	22	3.3
29 Sept 2026	9	45.16	42	32	18	16	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	65	14.51	44	33	2	2	4.0

Covered by 44 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 9 outlets

Asia-Pacific 10 outlets

Europe 16 outlets

Middle East 6 outlets

International 1 outlet