👤 Ben Milne

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-09 – 2026-09-18
Claims per article
69
138 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
8,670
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
50%
Health
50%
Most-tagged topics
BBCEnglandCDDFTCentre for Young LivesLondonNHSWalesthe County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust

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.
2026-09-18 · BBC News · Health
Twenty women had breasts removed unnecessarily, NHS trust admits
4 outlets covered this event
2026-09-09 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Drug gangs exploited and raped us as teens, then police failed us, women tell BBC
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-09-09 · BBC News
Drug gangs exploited and raped us as teens, then police failed us, women tell BBC
🔮 "I always knew, OK, he's probably hurt someone, but in terms of hurting me, I didn't think it would get to that point," she says. assertive
2026-09-18 · BBC News
Twenty women had breasts removed unnecessarily, NHS trust admits
🔮 "There are no words I could use to convey how personally distressed I am," he says. 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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