Overton Catcher

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

WeekArticlesStoriesSectionsOwners carryingIn a storyLargest owner
3–9 Oct6,57529901829%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.

WeekArticlesStories
08-22 – 08-286,245251
08-29 – 09-046,170277
09-05 – 09-116,515266
09-12 – 09-186,509266
09-19 – 09-256,471301
09-26 – 10-026,636253
10-03 – 10-096,575299

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

StoryOwnersArticlesLargest
Polanski insists he will carry on as Green leader despite by-election defeat14/186419%
Kemi Badenoch speech live: Tory leader promises to abolish inheritance tax on family homes12/184719%
What is the Green Party's 'Zionism is racism' motion?11/182516%
Green Party members pass ‘Zionism is racism’ motion11/181520%
Trump says 'threat' led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford10/182921%
RAF Fairford investigation update as terror cops arrest seventh man as six on bail10/181828%
Voters go to polls to replace Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras by-election10/181822%
Sisters who drowned off Brighton 'took their own lives' - dad shares tragic tribute9/183954%

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

PairScoreTogetherExpected
DMGT + Reach plc13.8707481
Axel Springer + Nikkei10.4388
Nikkei + Scott Trust7.79142
Peoples Press Printing Society + Scott Trust7.38542
Novara Media + Peoples Press Printing Society6.292
Axel Springer + Scott Trust5.46835

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

PairShapeScoreStoriesMedian gap
Peoples Press Printing Society + Novara Mediaone way5.0253.4 h
Lebedev Holdings + Independent Digital News and Mediaboth ways3.843455 min
Reach plc + DMGTboth ways3.5905113 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
OwnerFeeds
DMGT3
Reach plc3
BBC2
Comcast2
Axel Springer2
Scott Trust1
Independent Digital News and Media1
Lebedev Holdings1
Nikkei1
Peoples Press Printing Society1
Political Holdings (Ashcroft)1
Byline Media1
Novara Media1
Paul Marshall1
The Conversation Trust1
New Statesman Media Group1
Global1
openDemocracy1

Every enabled feed brought at least one article this week.