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Two students killed in Philippine school shooting

The Sydney Morning Herald Nestor Corrales, Mikhail Flores

18 Sept 2026 20:37 AEST Summary

From the report

The incident follows two fatal gun incidents since June at schools in the Philippines, where school shootings were previously rare.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 11.1 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

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Sentiment -0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 15.3 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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The Sydney Morning Herald Two students killed in Philippine school shooting plain
The West Australian Philippine teen kills two students in school shooting plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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

Outlet	Niral Score
The Sydney Morning Heraldas they published this story	11.1

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The same event elsewhere

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The West Australian Philippine teen kills two students in school shooting Niral 14.2 political 0 WAtoday Two students killed in Philippine school shooting Niral 11.1 political 0 Brisbane Times Two students killed in Philippine school shooting Niral 11.1 political 0 The Age Two students killed in Philippine school shooting Niral 11.1 political 0