ARGUS/OVERWATCH
LATEST VERSION
DEVELOPING · 30 OCT → 31 OCT 2026 · 2 EDITIONS · 25 OUTLETS

Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta to close under state pressure

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 12 25 31 Oct 30 Oct 18:24 UTC · Russia’s Novaya Gazeta to close after mounting state pressure 31 Oct 00:14 UTC · Novaya Gazeta to close after years of pressure from Russian authorities

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 3 HEADLINES

  1. 30 Oct, 18:24 UTC

    Russia’s Novaya Gazeta to close after mounting state pressure

  2. 31 Oct, 00:14 UTC

    Novaya Gazeta to close after years of pressure from Russian authorities

  3. 31 Oct, 06:15 UTC

    Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta to close under state pressure

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Novaya Gazeta · from 30 Oct 09:05, 8 outlets
  • Dmitry Muratov · from 30 Oct 09:05, 6 outlets
  • Sergei Sokolov · from 30 Oct 09:05, 5 outlets
  • Oleg Roldugin · from 30 Oct 09:05, 5 outlets
  • Anna Politkovskaya · from 30 Oct 11:09, 4 outlets
  • Mikhail Gorbachev · from 30 Oct 13:18, 3 outlets