First to report

2,728 stories in the last 30 days were covered by three or more publications, and 1,598 had a clear leader. Click a heading to sort.

Publications by firsts, descending
#	Publication	Stories covered	Led	Led, share	Median lead
1	Bleacher Report	494	143	29%	35 min
2	Variety	497	102	21%	36 min
3	Bloomberg	452	83	18%	97 min
4	Sports Illustrated	556	82	15%	54 min
5	BBC	342	72	21%	42 min
6	Deadline	445	61	14%	35 min
7	ESPN	508	56	11%	56 min
8	The Hollywood Reporter	444	56	13%	62 min
9	The Guardian	629	53	8%	31 min
10	Financial Times	347	49	14%	78 min
11	ABC News	200	39	20%	102 min
12	Times of India	421	39	9%	87 min
13	The Hill	353	38	11%	85 min
14	CBS Sports	423	37	9%	45 min
15	Sky Sports	213	35	16%	41 min
16	Consequence	235	33	14%	74 min
17	Rolling Stone	298	32	11%	62 min
18	South China Morning Post	387	32	8%	90 min
19	Stereogum	149	28	19%	57 min
20	Al Jazeera	475	27	6%	70 min
21	The Block	79	27	34%	118 min
22	France 24	249	25	10%	54 min
23	CBS News	223	24	11%	46 min
24	Business Insider	219	23	11%	100 min
25	NME	217	22	10%	87 min
26	Fox News	183	21	11%	80 min
27	Billboard	238	20	8%	67 min
28	Quartz	298	20	7%	110 min
29	The Verge	171	20	12%	78 min
30	CoinDesk	92	19	21%	174 min
31	Hacker News	139	19	14%	76 min
32	The Japan Times	267	17	6%	109 min
33	The A.V. Club	272	16	6%	80 min
34	Cointelegraph	106	16	15%	91 min
35	Pitchfork	103	16	16%	27 min
36	IndieWire	116	15	13%	58 min
37	Washington Post	152	15	10%	70 min
38	TechCrunch	141	14	10%	77 min
39	Deutsche Welle	228	13	6%	85 min
40	CNBC	47	12	26%	78 min
41	Engadget	169	12	7%	69 min
42	Sky News	106	10	9%	61 min
43	Decrypt	112	8	7%	32 min
44	MarketWatch	86	7	8%	43 min
45	The New York Times	144	7	5%	163 min
46	CNET	153	6	4%	48 min
47	STAT	47	6	13%	166 min
48	Axios	110	5	5%	69 min
49	Politico	48	5	10%	67 min
50	The Information	77	5	6%	101 min
51	Ars Technica	111	4	4%	204 min
52	Fortune	186	4	2%	213 min
53	Phys.org	83	4	5%	206 min
54	Science	25	4	16%	176 min
55	ZDNET	41	4	10%	125 min
56	NPR	135	3	2%	60 min
57	Protos	30	3	10%	35 min
58	The Register	81	3	4%	76 min
59	WIRED	78	3	4%	77 min
60	Inc.	129	2	2%	190 min
61	The Kyiv Independent	46	2	4%	155 min
62	MedPage Today	45	2	4%	233 min
63	New Scientist	36	2	6%	205 min
64	Scientific American	41	2	5%	115 min
65	Tom's Hardware	83	2	2%	188 min
66	404 Media	19	1	5%	54 min
67	MarkTechPost	17	1	6%	231 min
68	National Review	44	1	2%	342 min
69	Nature	28	1	4%	360 min
70	Roll Call	53	1	2%	88 min
71	ARTnews	22	0	0%
72	The Economist	35	0	0%
73	Entrepreneur	35	0	0%
74	Inside Climate News	26	0	0%
75	KFF Health News	11	0	0%
76	Mother Jones	71	0	0%
77	Sifted	13	0	0%
78	MIT Technology Review	10	0	0%
79	The Dispatch	21	0	0%

How this is counted

A publication's arrival on a story is its earliest article there, by the time the publisher gave. A story has a leader only when one publication came at least a minute before every other and no more than 6 hours before the next. Ties are not scoops, and a longer gap is usually an older, related article that was grouped into a later story. A publication needs at least 10 stories to be listed, since a share over a handful of stories says nothing.

It measures who published first in the feeds we read, not who had the story first. A feed that posts in batches, or that gives no time and falls back to when we first saw the item, can look slower than it is. Stories come from NewsMarkets' grouping of similar headlines, which is imperfect.