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Rank
Ran
33h
Updated
9d ago
Final
Outlets
66
Regions
5
Countries
33
Languages
21

+23

Where it travelled

The 33 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

74%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 8%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 4 countries · 9%
  • Europe 49 outlets · 21 countries · 74%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 6%

The figures

Coverage
66 outlets in 33 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 66 outlets, 10 public-service, 56 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 3: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia. Asia-Pacific 4: Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan. Europe 21: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek.
Timeline
Earliest article Die Zeit, 25 Sept 2026, 08:02 UTC. First seen 25 Sept 2026, 08:20 UTC. Last seen 26 Sept 2026, 17:49 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 International. Topic Business & economy. 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
32.84, at the end of the last day measured. 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
25 Sept 2026 9 44.30 63 32 63 32 3.3
26 Sept 2026 17 32.84 66 33 9 6 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 25 Sept, 08:20 UTC · Updated 26 Sept, 17:49 UTC

Covered by 66 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • IOL South Africa
  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 5 outlets

  • CNN Brasil Brazil
  • Estadão Brazil
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • Semana Colombia

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • ARY News Pakistan
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Informburo Kazakhstan
  • Kun.uz Uzbekistan
  • Malay Mail Malaysia
  • Tengrinews Kazakhstan

Europe 49 outlets

  • ABC Spain
  • Aftonbladet Sweden
  • ANSA Italy
  • Berlingske Denmark
  • Blic Serbia
  • Blick Switzerland
  • ČT24 Czechia
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Die Zeit Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El Mundo Spain
  • El País Spain
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • G4Media Romania
  • Helsingin Sanomat Finland
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium
  • Il Post Italy
  • Iltalehti Finland
  • Index Hungary
  • Kommersant Russia
  • Kurier Austria
  • La Repubblica Italy
  • La Vanguardia Spain
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Monde France
  • Le Soir Belgium
  • Libération France
  • LRT Lithuania
  • Lrytas Lithuania
  • N1 Serbia
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland
  • NOS Netherlands
  • NU.nl Netherlands
  • ORF Austria
  • Politiken Denmark
  • Postimees Estonia
  • Rai News Italy
  • RTÉ Ireland
  • RTL Nieuws Netherlands
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia
  • SRF Switzerland
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVNET Latvia
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Al Sharq Qatar
  • An-Nahar Lebanon
  • Cumhuriyet Turkey
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates

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