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Every Tuesday our analysts publish one analysis: how a story moved through the press, social media and the official record, with the data, the method and the sources on the page.
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Drought, then prices: how the harvest story moved from the weather page to the economy desk in eleven days
Social media carried the story first, farmers posting from the fields. The press caught up when the ministry put a number on the losses, and from then on it was a story about food prices.
- 11 days
- from the first farmer posts to the first front-page price story
- 3 days
- social coverage led the press before national outlets picked it up
- 62%
- of press mentions in week three framed the drought as a consumer-price issue
- 1First farmer posts
- 2Social volume peaks
- 3Ministry loss estimate. Press overtakes social.
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Hot topicAgriculture
Drought, then prices: how the harvest story moved from the weather page to the economy desk in eleven days
Social media carried the story first, farmers posting from the fields. The press caught up when the ministry put a number on the losses, and from then on it was a story about food prices.
11 daysfrom the first farmer posts to the first front-page price story - 39
Energy
Grid tariffs: the regulatory story regional press covered a week before the nationals
The regulator’s consultation on cross-border grid tariffs ran for a week in regional papers and trade sites before a national daily picked it up. By then, most of the arguments had already been made.
7 daysbetween the first regional report and the first national story - 38
Healthcare
Waiting lists in four languages: the same debate, four different villains
Hospital waiting lists were in the news in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Croatia in the same fortnight. Each country’s press told the story differently, and each picked a different party to blame.
4 countriesdebating waiting lists in the same fortnight - 37
Construction
Steel prices and tender delays: what the trade press saw that the dailies missed
Trade publications reported rising steel prices and postponed public tenders for most of August. The daily press covered neither until a large road project was put on hold.
5 weeksbetween the first trade report and the first daily story - 36
Public services
Back to school: how one viral post set the agenda for a week of coverage
A parent’s post about the cost of a school supply list was shared tens of thousands of times in two days. For the following week, nearly every story about the new school year started from it.
48 hfrom the post to the first national story
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