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‘It’s horrific’: Smell alerted neighbours to body found on Sydney’s lower north shore

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Newsrooms: 5
Last 3 hours: 4 reports
Momentum: Slowing

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

75%25%

Where it’s heading

Probably peaked. Likely 5 to 6 newsrooms by 6:40pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we know

Against the past week

More newsrooms than 85% of the past week’s 4020 stories, and number 197 of 1717 in News.

Part of a bigger story

: 3 developments since Sun 8 Nov.

A torso found in a dumped couch had been there for a couple of days, police believe, before the odour prompted reports from the public.

In The Sydney Morning Herald’s words.²

Read the full story at The Sydney Morning Herald

The bigger story: Sydney

3 developments since Sun 8 Nov. 1 more since this one.

Sun, 8 Nov, 12:20pm AEDT
Police make grisly find in bushland near Lithgow, west of Sydney
1 newsroom
Thu, 12 Nov, 7:35am AEDT
Homicide squad investigating after human torso found inside sofa
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Thu, 12 Nov, 7:43am AEDT
Horror as a 'torso' is found in Sydney bushland: Police launch murder probe
1 newsroom. Linked by Sydney, torso, found, bushland, murder

The whole storyline

The story so far

5 newsrooms

Reports: 16
Newsrooms and sources: 5
Last 3 hours: 4
Last 24 hours

First with it: The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 min before anyone else.

Reported by 5 newsrooms.

Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).

Time	Newsroom	Total
7:35am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	1
7:58am AEDT	ABC News (Australia)	2
8:09am AEDT	The Nightly	3
8:09am AEDT	The Guardian	4
8:28am AEDT	The Mirror	5

Time	Source	Total
7:35am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	1
7:35am AEDT	The Age	2
7:35am AEDT	Brisbane Times	3
7:35am AEDT	WAtoday	4
7:58am AEDT	ABC News (Australia)	5
8:09am AEDT	The Nightly	6
8:09am AEDT	The Guardian	7
8:20am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	8
8:20am AEDT	The Age	9
8:20am AEDT	Brisbane Times	10
8:20am AEDT	WAtoday	11
8:28am AEDT	The Mirror	12
12:30pm AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	13
12:30pm AEDT	The Age	14
12:30pm AEDT	Brisbane Times	15
12:30pm AEDT	WAtoday	16

When	Likely range	Most likely
Now	5	5
In 1 hours (1:40pm AEDT)	5 to 5	5
In 3 hours (3:40pm AEDT)	5 to 5	5
In 6 hours (6:40pm AEDT)	5 to 6	5
In 12 hours (12:40am AEDT)	5 to 6	5
In 24 hours (12:40pm AEDT)	5 to 6	6

‘It’s horrific’: Smell alerted neighbours to body found on Sydney’s lower north shore

The bigger story: Sydney

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‘It’s horrific’: Smell alerted neighbours to body found on Sydney’s lower north shore

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