👤 Laurissa Smith

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-08-19 – 2026-09-16
Claims per article
29
58 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,832
characters
Writes for ABC News (AU).
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Economy/Business
50%
Technology
50%
Most-tagged topics
FrenchLauncestonSimplotTIATasFarmers vegetable councilTasmaniaTasmanianUTAS

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.24 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-16 · ABC News (AU) · Technology
Apple varieties 'lost over the years' are being kept alive in this collection
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-19 · ABC News (AU) · Economy/Business
Tassie growers spitting chips over Simplot spud contract
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-08-19 · ABC News (AU)
Tassie growers spitting chips over Simplot spud contract
🔮 They are in dispute over a new contract that could make growers liable for future chip recalls, long after the potatoes have left the farm. assertive
2026-09-16 · ABC News (AU)
Apple varieties 'lost over the years' are being kept alive in this collection
🔮 "As part of that we're also going to figure out when they're flowering, who pollinates it, when they harvest and all of that baseline data that may have been lost over the years. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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