Four players cleared by police in Sydney Swans Pullman Hotel investigation
- Newsrooms
- 8
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
28 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 9 to 10 newsrooms by 10:55pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 95% of the past week’s 4268 stories, and number 103 of 2023 in News.
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WAtoday didn’t include a summary, so this is The Guardian’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans are an Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL).4
The story so far
OfficialCooling- Reports
- 35
- Newsrooms and sources
- 8
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (2 in the last three hours, 28 in the three before).
First with it: The Guardian, 5 min before anyone else.
From AFL directly.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: PerthNow, The West Australian, Australian Financial Review, The Nightly, Canberra Weekly, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 8
- Reports
- 35
- Over
- 5.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 26 min
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 10:51am AEDT | The Guardian | 1 |
| 10:56am AEDT | PerthNow | 2 |
| 11:17am AEDT | The Sydney Morning Herald | 3 |
| 11:23am AEDT | Daily Mail | 4 |
| 11:35am AEDT | AFL | 5 |
| 11:35am AEDT | Zero Hanger | 6 |
| 11:45am AEDT | SBS News | 7 |
| 12:00pm AEDT | Sporting News Australia | 8 |

