Sport / Sydney, NSW

Tedesco wins Churchill Medal after leading Roosters to grand final win

ABC News

4 Oct 2026 22:24 AEDT Summary

From the report

James Tedesco has won the Clive Churchill Medal as player of the match in the 2026 NRL grand final as his Sydney Roosters defeated the Newcastle Knights 19-18.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

ABC News Tedesco wins Churchill Medal after leading Roosters to grand final win plain
WAtoday Watson ruled out of grand final after failing bid to overcome concussion plain
ABC News (Sport) Roosters blow as Watson ruled out of NRL grand final plain
Brisbane Times Knights coach ‘couldn’t be prouder’ as Roosters celebrate grand final victory plain

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All two things this headline claims are in the report.

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How it is written

Niral Score 14.2 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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final5match5grand4game3player3premiership3win3great2winner2won2

Sentiment +0.3 hostilefavourable Sourcing 39 unattributednamed sources Mood 71.3 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on ABC News’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
ABC Newsas they published this story	14.2	5	39	0.3	71.3
ABC News (Sport)	12.6	3	17	0.1	55.2

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The same event elsewhere

8 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

WAtoday Watson ruled out of grand final after failing bid to overcome concussion Niral 5.5 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times Watson ruled out of grand final after failing bid to overcome concussion Niral 5.5 · calm political 0 The Age Watson ruled out of grand final after failing bid to overcome concussion Niral 5.5 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Watson ruled out of grand final after failing bid to overcome concussion Niral 5.5 · calm political 0 ABC News (Sport) Roosters blow as Watson ruled out of NRL grand final Niral 12.6 · mostly calm political 0 Brisbane Times Knights coach ‘couldn’t be prouder’ as Roosters celebrate grand final victory Niral 4.6 · calm political 0 The Age Knights coach ‘couldn’t be prouder’ as Roosters celebrate grand final victory Niral 4.6 · calm political 0 WAtoday Knights coach ‘couldn’t be prouder’ as Roosters celebrate grand final victory Niral 4.6 · calm political 0