Media watch: who is fastest, who is most sourced

Label: analysis (incident.media@web-summit.dinis), computed at 11 Nov 00:03 UTC from coverage.json: 214 items from 16 outlets, each read from the outlet's own page, feed or news sitemap. It ranks only what we could read: SIC Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, TSF, Renascença, The Guardian and AP refused a bot, and a live blog's entries are not timed here, so a live blog that carried the news first can look slower than it was. A ranking of a sample, not a verdict on anyone's journalism. Not a warning service: follow IPMA and ANEPC.

Who was first on each fact

Six keyed facts (facts.json). For each, each outlet's first item about it: an article (matched by its title) or a timed entry inside its live blog (live-entries.json: Jornal de Negócios, Diário de Notícias, RTP), in order of the time the page itself gives. As data: first-on-each-fact.json.

IPMA's red wind warning for Wednesday

Primary source time: 10 Nov 07:18 UTC (fact: IPMA's own issue time in its CAP message (data/weather/cap.json, incident.meteorologist@); the press said "divulgada às 08h31").

The government's alert situation: schools and non-essential public services closed on Wednesday

Primary source time: 10 Nov 12:10 UTC (fact: portugal.gov.pt's page is dated 12:10; the minister announced it in the morning, so the press is ahead of the page).

Lisbon's mayor: everything indicates Web Summit cannot run on Wednesday

Primary source time: 10 Nov 13:00 UTC (evidence: a spoken statement; no primary page found. The time is approximate: the first report is the earliest evidence of it).

The government recommends suspending Web Summit on Wednesday

Primary source time: 10 Nov 17:53 UTC (evidence: no government page found; 17:53 is the first report (Jornal de Negócios' live blog, in the timeline)).

Web Summit calls off Day 2

Primary source time: 10 Nov 19:09 UTC (fact: Web Summit's "Important event update" page, published 19:09 (page data)).

IPMA moves Lisbon's red rain warning three hours earlier, to Wednesday 09:00

Primary source time: 10 Nov 21:23 UTC (fact: IPMA's CAP message sent 21:23 (data/weather/cap.json); its open-data feed showed it from the 23:51 read).

Notes: the organisers' email to attendees went at 19:38 (no public URL; in the timeline). Where the press is ahead of the primary time, the announcement was made in person before the page went up, or the primary time is itself only the first report. A title match can miss an item that reports the fact under another headline.

Most sourced

Two measures, both countable from the pages: whose reporting it is (a reporter's by-line, the agency wire, or the outlet's desk) and whether the page links to a primary source (IPMA, ANEPC, the government, the Câmara, an operator, the organiser). A link is not the same as sourcing: broadcasters quote officials on air without linking, and agency copy names its sources in the text. Read the columns as what they are.

Among outlets with at least four items:

• Highest share of items linking a primary source: TEK Notícias (SAPO) (75%), Público (36%), Diário de Notícias (7%), Observador (6%), CNN Portugal (4%).
• Highest share of items with a reporter's by-line: TEK Notícias (SAPO) (100%), Diário de Notícias (93%), Público (57%), ECO (50%), Observador (29%).
• The wire underneath: 88 of 214 items carry Lusa's by-line, across 6 outlets. Much of what looks like many outlets is one agency, published many times.

What each outlet does best (from these counts)

By-lines, as printed

Reporters whose names are printed on the items in the list, by outlet, with the number of items. A by-line is a public professional credit; nothing else about anyone is kept. A wrong or missing by-line: tell us.

• Notícias ao Minuto: Bernardo Matias, Carlos Pereira Fernandes, Mariline Direito Rodrigues, Miguel Patinha Dias
• CNN Portugal: Marta Coropos Carvalho, Nuno Mandeiro, Pedro Filipe Silva
• Observador: Ana Sanlez, António Moura dos Santos, Filomena Martins, Hugo Fortunato de Oliveira, Judite França, Miguel Santos Carrapatoso, Ricardo Conceição
• Diário de Notícias: Margarida Vaqueiro Lopes (2), Ricardo Simões Ferreira (2), Sónia Santos Pereira (2), Adelaide Cabral, Amanda Lima, Ana Meireles, André Certã, Cecília Carmo, Cynthia Valente, David Pereira, Leonardo Ralha, Nuno Vinha, Sofia Fonseca, Susete Henriques
• Público: Adriana Castro, Andrea Cunha Freitas, Cristiana Faria Moreira, Fernando Costa, Leonor Alhinho, Miguel Dantas, Sónia Sapage, Victor Ferreira
• ECO: Ana Marcela, Shrikesh Laxmidas, Tiago Alexandre Pereira
• TEK Notícias (SAPO): Gustavo Dias (2), Fátima Caçador, Francisca Andrade
• Jornal de Negócios: Pedro Barros Costa
• Euronews: Pascale Davies (2)
• Jornal Económico: José Carlos Lourinho

How to read this

• Publication times are the page's own (its JSON-LD or meta tags), in UTC. Pages are updated after publication; where the page says so, coverage.json has modified.
• "After the primary" is measured against the time of the primary source given above each table. Where the press is ahead of the primary page, the announcement was made in person before the page went up.
• The method, the code and the limits: README. The data: coverage.json, outlets.json.