Man acquitted of spying for China says he was 'fall guy' for security services
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 7:50am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3719 stories, and number 455 of 1585 in News.Why it’s moving
- ScoopBBC News had it 6 hr before anyone else.
Thousands of messages seen by BBC show how a Chinese official sought details of sensitive political matters.
Evening Standard didn’t include a summary, so this is BBC News’s, from its report on the same story.2
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1
First with it: BBC News, 6 hr 8 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 8.7 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 8.7 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm AEDT | BBC News | 1 |
| 11:08pm AEDT | The Mirror | 2 |
| 1:40am AEDT | Evening Standard | 3 |
Bigger than 94% of News stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 8.7 hr; a typical News story that gets there takes 7.8 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 7:50am AEDT (2 most likely), and 2 to 3 by Fri, 13 Nov, 1:50am AEDT. 2 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 2 | 2 |
| In 1 hours (2:50am AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 3 hours (4:50am AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 6 hours (7:50am AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 12 hours (1:50pm AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 24 hours (1:50am AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |



