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Amy Shark leads grand final tribute for Jai Arrow

ABC News (Sport) Michael Doyle

4 Oct 2026 20:03 AEDT Summary

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4 Oct 2026 22:46 AEDT the headline was changed: ~~Thousands make arrow sign for Jai as~~ Amy Shark leads grand final tribute for Jai Arrow

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From the report

Retired rugby league star Jai Arrow and former Wallaby Nathan Charles has been given a tribute before the NRL grand final.

How outlets headlined it

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

ABC News (Sport) Amy Shark leads grand final tribute for Jai Arrow plain
ABC News (Sport) Amy Shark to lead NRL grand final musical tribute to Jai Arrow plain
The Age Amy Shark, Dave Gleeson and Phil Jamieson perform at 2026 NRL grand final plain
The West Australian Verdict in for NRL grand final entertainment as Jai Arrow and Nathan Charles honoured plain

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 382-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 12 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, jingoistic and 2 more and 4 at zero

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

arrow9rugby6league5final4tribute4gesture3grand3lap3thousands3artists2began2community2diagnosed2diagnosis2disease2former2make2making2motor2neuron2play2week2

Sentiment +1.2 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 8.6 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 52 unattributednamed sources Mood 47 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert

How the article is written, not whether it is correct. How each is measured.

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

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The Age, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, The West Australian. 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 News (Sport)as they published this story	12	9	52	1.2	47
ABC News (Sport)	8.2	4	54	0.8	48.4

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The same event elsewhere

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

ABC News (Sport) Amy Shark to lead NRL grand final musical tribute to Jai Arrow Niral 8.2 · calm political 0 The Age Amy Shark, Dave Gleeson and Phil Jamieson perform at 2026 NRL grand final Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 WAtoday Amy Shark, Dave Gleeson and Phil Jamieson perform at 2026 NRL grand final Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Amy Shark, Dave Gleeson and Phil Jamieson perform at 2026 NRL grand final Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times Amy Shark, Dave Gleeson and Phil Jamieson perform at 2026 NRL grand final Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 The West Australian Verdict in for NRL grand final entertainment as Jai Arrow and Nathan Charles honoured Niral 5.3 · calm political 0