In defence of Russell Brand’s lawyer
- Newsrooms
- 54
- Last 3 hours
- 9 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
1 in the 3 before
Accelerating
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 56 to 57 newsrooms by 3:12am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 5 of 3603).
1File photo: Russell Brand
Russell Brand, who became a celebrity darling in the early 2000s, was found guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault in a case brought by six women.
spiked didn’t include a summary, so this is NPR’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor and media personality. He rose to prominence as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, a spin-off of the reality television series Big Brother broadcast on E4.4
The bigger story: Russell Brand
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
Russell Brand was ordered to leave Jemima Khan's home after 'assault', police say
You’re here56 newsrooms
- As Russell Brand’s Begins a 10-Year Prison Sentence, Why Celebrities Fear the Power of an Expose
1 newsroom. Linked by As Russell Brand, begin, sentence, fear, expose
The story so far
54 newsrooms- Reports
- 146
- Newsrooms and sources
- 54
- Last 3 hours
- 9
Accelerating: reports are coming in at least twice as fast as three hours before (9 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: spiked, 19 hr 41 min before anyone else.
Reported by 54 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Guardian and Just the News (the same headline); Daily Express, The Mirror (all Reach); The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); The Times of India and BBC News (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 4 |
| Tue | 116 |
| Today | 26 |