The Booker Prize proves I know nothing about books
- Newsrooms
- 21
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Quiet
0 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 22 newsrooms by 8:45pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 99% of the past week’s 4087 stories, and number 6 of 510 in Film & TV.All I know is that novels are certainly the best thing in life
In New Statesman’s words.1
The bigger story: Booker Prize
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
The Booker Prize proves I know nothing about books
You’re here22 newsrooms
- M. John Harrison becomes oldest Booker Prize winner
2 newsrooms. Linked by John Harrison, writer, become, oldest, ever, winner
The story so far
21 newsroomsCooling- Reports
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- Newsrooms and sources
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- Last 3 hours
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (0 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: BBC News, 2 hr 35 min before anyone else.
Reported by 21 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); RNZ and NZ Herald (the same headline).
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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
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| Fri | 0 |
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| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 22 |
| Wed | 3 |
| Today | 2 |


