👤 Alex Smith

3 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
3
2026-08-04 – 2026-10-06
Claims per article
29
87 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,083
characters
Writes for BBC News.
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

Crime & Law
67%
World
33%
Most-tagged topics
BBC BreakfastBoulogne-sur-MerBritishDefenceEgyptianFranceFrenchMiddlesbrough

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 -0.15 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-08-24 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Social media firms should remove dangerous driving videos, minister says
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-06 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Boats 'set for people smugglers' seized at UK airport for the first time
2 outlets covered this event
2026-08-04 · BBC News · World
More than 170 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-08-04 · BBC News
More than 170 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel
🔮 - Published More than 170 migrants have been rescued after the boat they were using to cross the Channel caught fire on Tuesday morning, as the UK government said "all will be returned" to France. assertive
2026-08-24 · BBC News
Social media firms should remove dangerous driving videos, minister says
🔮 Pollard told BBC Breakfast on Monday: "Social media companies could take that down today, adjust their algorithms so it's not celebrated." assertive
2026-10-06 · BBC News
Boats 'set for people smugglers' seized at UK airport for the first time
🔮 The NCA said, had the latest shipment made its way into the hands of people smugglers, "each could have been used to transport around 70 people across the Channel". assertive
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