uk-regional
Regional press of the United Kingdom, where twelve of the fifteen feeds belong to three chains. 15 feeds, 6 owners, 333 stories in the week to 9 October 2026.
15 feeds from 6 owners (15 rss), 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 | 7,047 | 333 | 0 | 6 | 24% | 33% |
“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, 21% 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 | 7,421 | 311 |
| 08-29 – 09-04 | 7,214 | 349 |
| 09-05 – 09-11 | 7,548 | 324 |
| 09-12 – 09-18 | 7,277 | 311 |
| 09-19 – 09-25 | 7,404 | 324 |
| 09-26 – 10-02 | 7,465 | 306 |
| 10-03 – 10-09 | 7,047 | 333 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tragedy as 'missing' girl, 11, found dead in Midlands park | 5/6 | 49 | 65% |
| Live updates as ASOS 'hacked' as customers receive eerie notification | 4/6 | 50 | 74% |
| Oxton house death 'non-suspicious' as probe into 'substances' removed by bomb squad continues | 4/6 | 43 | 74% |
| Polanski insists he will carry on as Green leader despite by-election defeat | 4/6 | 13 | 77% |
| Kneecap to visit Garvaghy Road amid dispute over Drumcree Orange Order march | 4/6 | 9 | 33% |
| Badenoch vows to slash inheritance tax in ‘battle for soul of the nation’ | 4/6 | 8 | 38% |
| UK fuel supplies face 'severe disruption' as 160 offshore workers set to strike | 4/6 | 4 | 25% |
| Rochdale murder LIVE as police scene in place after death of man on housing estate | 3/6 | 38 | 82% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish News Ltd (Fitzpatrick) + Mediahuis | 22.5 | 1,046 | 669 |
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.
Feeds
6 owners, 15 feeds
| Owner | Feeds |
|---|---|
| Reach plc | 5 |
| Media Concierge | 4 |
| Gannett | 3 |
| Mediahuis | 1 |
| Irish News Ltd (Fitzpatrick) | 1 |
| Nation.Cymru | 1 |
Every enabled feed brought at least one article this week.