uk-national
National press of the United Kingdom. 25 feeds, 18 owners, 299 stories in the week to 9 October 2026.
25 feeds from 18 owners (23 rss, 2 sitemap), measured as one market because synchrony only means something inside one7. It is one of the markets in the weekly report, where it is compared with the others.
The week
| Week | Articles | Stories | Sections | Owners carrying | In a story | Largest owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3–9 Oct | 6,575 | 299 | 0 | 18 | 29% | 25% |
“Sections” are clusters that are real but not events — the weather for forty cities, exchange rates, lottery draws — and they are counted apart from stories everywhere in this project36. “Largest owner” is the share of the market’s own week held by its biggest publisher, the baseline any single story is compared against.
Of the articles collected this week, 26% are not events at all — weather and listings, but also guides, shopping advice and columns. That reading comes from a small model trained for this project on labelled headlines, and it is reported rather than acted upon: the stories above are filtered by the narrower rule only36.
| Week | Articles | Stories |
|---|---|---|
| 08-22 – 08-28 | 6,245 | 251 |
| 08-29 – 09-04 | 6,170 | 277 |
| 09-05 – 09-11 | 6,515 | 266 |
| 09-12 – 09-18 | 6,509 | 266 |
| 09-19 – 09-25 | 6,471 | 301 |
| 09-26 – 10-02 | 6,636 | 253 |
| 10-03 – 10-09 | 6,575 | 299 |
Weeks in which the market was still being wired up show a dash rather than a number: a market brought up mid-week reports every day, just with a quarter of its feeds30.
Widest stories of the week
| Story | Owners | Articles | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polanski insists he will carry on as Green leader despite by-election defeat | 14/18 | 64 | 19% |
| Kemi Badenoch speech live: Tory leader promises to abolish inheritance tax on family homes | 12/18 | 47 | 19% |
| What is the Green Party's 'Zionism is racism' motion? | 11/18 | 25 | 16% |
| Green Party members pass ‘Zionism is racism’ motion | 11/18 | 15 | 20% |
| Trump says 'threat' led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford | 10/18 | 29 | 21% |
| RAF Fairford investigation update as terror cops arrest seventh man as six on bail | 10/18 | 18 | 28% |
| Voters go to polls to replace Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras by-election | 10/18 | 18 | 22% |
| Sisters who drowned off Brighton 'took their own lives' - dad shares tragic tribute | 9/18 | 39 | 54% |
Owners are counted after word-for-word copies are collapsed into one voice5; the last column is how much of the story one voice wrote31.
Owners that appear together
| Pair | Score | Together | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMGT + Reach plc | 13.8 | 707 | 481 |
| Axel Springer + Nikkei | 10.4 | 38 | 8 |
| Nikkei + Scott Trust | 7.7 | 91 | 42 |
| Peoples Press Printing Society + Scott Trust | 7.3 | 85 | 42 |
| Novara Media + Peoples Press Printing Society | 6.2 | 9 | 2 |
| Axel Springer + Scott Trust | 5.4 | 68 | 35 |
Measured over the whole archive rather than the week: the score grows with the number of stories, so it is read inside a market and never between two of them1529.
Which of the two goes first
| Pair | Shape | Score | Stories | Median gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peoples Press Printing Society + Novara Media | one way | 5.0 | 25 | 3.4 h |
| Lebedev Holdings + Independent Digital News and Media | both ways | 3.8 | 434 | 55 min |
| Reach plc + DMGT | both ways | 3.5 | 905 | 113 min |
A pair is shown only if it holds in both halves of the archive35; the shape says whether one of the two is systematically first or the order is mutual16.
Feeds
18 owners, 25 feeds
| Owner | Feeds |
|---|---|
| DMGT | 3 |
| Reach plc | 3 |
| BBC | 2 |
| Comcast | 2 |
| Axel Springer | 2 |
| Scott Trust | 1 |
| Independent Digital News and Media | 1 |
| Lebedev Holdings | 1 |
| Nikkei | 1 |
| Peoples Press Printing Society | 1 |
| Political Holdings (Ashcroft) | 1 |
| Byline Media | 1 |
| Novara Media | 1 |
| Paul Marshall | 1 |
| The Conversation Trust | 1 |
| New Statesman Media Group | 1 |
| Global | 1 |
| openDemocracy | 1 |
Every enabled feed brought at least one article this week.