Asia-Pacific / Malaysia · Culture

Siti Hasmah, wife of former Malaysian PM Mahathir, dies at 100

Rank
Ran: 31h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 21
Regions: 3
Countries: 11
Languages: 6

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 28 Sept, 02:11 UTC

The earliest of 13 English reports

Read it also in ไทย (3) · +4 languages

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Free Malaysia Today, 28 Sept, 02:11 UTC.
Second country: Hong Kong, with South China Morning Post.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 28 Sept, 02:11 UTC.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Last article: 21 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

86%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 5%
Asia-Pacific 18 outlets · 8 countries · 86%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 9%

First movers

Free Malaysia Today 28 Sept, 02:11 UTC
Utusan Malaysia +11m
Malay Mail +22m
South China Morning Post +25m
CNA +33m

Last to join

Al Watan (Syria) 29 Sept, 07:54 UTC
Daily Maverick 28 Sept, 11:50 UTC
The Express Tribune 28 Sept, 11:28 UTC
Thanh Niên 28 Sept, 09:48 UTC
Mothership 28 Sept, 09:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 21 outlets in 11 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 21 outlets, 5 state-owned, 16 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 8: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. Middle East 2: Syria, Turkey. 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, English, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 28 Sept 2026, 02:11 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 02:40 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 10:04 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 Asia-Pacific, Malaysia. Topic Culture. 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: 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

28 Sept 2026 63 15.68 20 10 20 10 3.3

29 Sept 2026 231 5.49 21 11 3 2 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 02:40 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 10:04 UTC

Covered by 21 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	63	15.68	20	10	20	10	3.3
29 Sept 2026	231	5.49	21	11	3	2	3.3 → 4.0

Covered by 21 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Asia-Pacific 18 outlets

Middle East 2 outlets