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.
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 +0.02
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 In what a judge today praised as a 'remarkable' piece of bravery and presence of mind, despite fearing she would be murdered, the schoolgirl secretly placed strands of her hair around the interior of Sharpe's car during her 'harrowing' ordeal in a bid to ensure traces of her DNA would later be found. assertive
🔮 Carla Georgescu's body was found on February 5, which would have been her 20th birthday, at Ribble Hall, a student accommodation block on the University of Lancashire campus in Preston. assertive
🔮 He may have been motivated by 'sexual jealousy' after discovering the second year clinical psychology student was about to meet up with a man with whom she had struck up a romantic online relationship, prosecutors allege. mixed
🔮 She became worried when Carla did not respond to her messages and phone calls, and the following day – which would have been Carla's 20th birthday – she contacted university security.
They carried out a welfare check and discovered her body slumped against a wardrobe door with a belt around her neck, initially believing she had hanged herself. mixed
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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