The rise and fall of Russell Brand, symbol of the UK’s ‘lad culture’
- Newsrooms
- 60
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- New
0 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 5 of 4156).Part of a bigger story
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In El País’s words.2
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2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
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The story so far
60 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 165
- Newsrooms and sources
- 60
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (2 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: spiked, 19 hr 41 min before anyone else.
Reported by 60 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 | Reports |
|---|---|
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 1 |
| Tue | 50 |
| Wed | 76 |
| Thu | 26 |
| Today | 12 |



