Tory researcher accused of spying for China breaks silence on being 'fall guy' for security services
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 11:48am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 76% of the past week’s 3844 stories, and number 293 of 1641 in News.
1A British man who was charged with spying for China has broken his silence after the case was thrown out of court. Chris Cash, a former parliamentary researcher, denied accusations of providing information prejudicial to the interests of the state in breach of the Official Secrets Act. Speaking
In GB News’s words.2
The story so far
4 newsrooms- Reports
- 4
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1
First with it: BBC News, 6 hr 8 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 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
- 4
- Over
- 11.6 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 |
| 4:36am AEDT | GB News | 4 |
Bigger than 96% 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 4 to 5 newsrooms by 11:48am AEDT (4 most likely), and 4 to 5 by Fri, 13 Nov, 5:48am AEDT. 4 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 4 | 4 |
| In 1 hours (6:48am AEDT) | 4 to 4 | 4 |
| In 3 hours (8:48am AEDT) | 4 to 4 | 4 |
| In 6 hours (11:48am AEDT) | 4 to 5 | 4 |
| In 12 hours (5:48pm AEDT) | 4 to 5 | 4 |
| In 24 hours (5:48am AEDT) | 4 to 5 | 4 |



