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What the coverage did

Every other page here tells you what happened. This one measures how 29 newsrooms reacted — how fast a story travelled, where they all converged, and what readers found before the press did.

Fastest to spread
3 outlets in 2.1hours
Moroccan police arrest more than 100 people as they attempt to enter Ceuta
Measured as outlets per hour, so a short sharp burst outranks a story that dribbled out over days. This is what a genuinely breaking story looks like in the data.
Where everyone converged
8 separate newsrooms
Black professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row found dead
The strongest importance signal available: independent editors, in different countries, all deciding the same thing mattered.
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Readers found it first
59 reads · 1 outlet
Geneva super-rich rocked by luxury home burglary spree
The most-read story that only one newsroom filed. Attention and coverage disagreeing is usually where the interesting stuff is.
18:00
busiest hour · 68
04:00
quietest hour · 12
finance.yahoo.com
filed most · 24h · 151
786
articles · 24h
Why this page exists

A newspaper can tell you what happened. It cannot tell you that a story reached five newsrooms in two hours, because it only sees its own.

Holding 29 outlets in one archive makes a second layer of facts visible: the speed, the consensus, and the gaps between what was covered and what was read. Those are the numbers on this page, and they are counted, never estimated.

Computed from our own archive over the last 48 hours, refreshed every 30 minutes. Clustering groups stories by shared headline terms across outlets, so it is close but not perfect — a rare story can be split, or two similar ones merged.