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Ex-prince Andrew search warrants quashed but UK police probe continues

Reported by 8 outlets from 4 newsrooms. Every outlet’s headline, how the story developed, and how loaded the writing was in each report we could read in full.

How outlets headlined it

8 outlets, one headline each: the latest each filed on this event.

How it developed · 48 steps
  1. The West Australian filed Andrew takes UK police to court over arrest
  2. The Sydney Morning Herald filed Andrew takes police to court over Epstein files arrest
  3. WAtoday filed
  4. Brisbane Times filed
  5. The Age filed
  6. 7NEWS filed Epstein files fallout: former Prince takes UK police to court over arrest
  7. The Age filed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes police to court over Epstein files arrest
  8. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  9. WAtoday filed
  10. Brisbane Times filed
  11. SBS News (World) filed Former prince Andrew taking legal action against police over search warrants
  12. SBS News filed Former prince Andrew to reportedly sue over alleged unlawful police searches
  13. ABC News filed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor taking police to court over Epstein files arrest
  14. ABC News changed its headline Breaking: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor launches legal action over Epstein files arrest
  15. The Age filed Former prince Andrew takes police to court over arrest
  16. WAtoday filed
  17. Brisbane Times filed
  18. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  19. The West Australian filed Andrew told not to use King's money for legal action
  20. The Sydney Morning Herald filed King refuses to foot Andrew's legal bill
  21. The Age filed
  22. WAtoday filed
  23. Brisbane Times filed
  24. ABC News changed its headline Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor launches legal action taking police to court over Epstein files arrest
  25. ABC News rewrote its report (6 words in, 16 out)
  26. The West Australian filed Andrew accuses UK police of 'taking personal items'
  27. The West Australian filed First hearing in Andrew's legal claim against police
  28. ABC News filed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wins court battle over search warrants
  29. The West Australian filed Andrew search warrants quashed, UK police accept error
  30. 7NEWS filed Judge says search warrants used to seize property from former prince Andrew were unlawful
  31. The Sydney Morning Herald filed Search warrants for former prince quashed after police accept they were unlawful
  32. WAtoday filed
  33. Brisbane Times filed
  34. The Age filed
  35. ABC News changed its headline Breaking: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wins court battle to have police search warrants quashed
  36. ABC News rewrote its report (224 words in, 34 out)
  37. The Sydney Morning Herald changed its headline Police Search warrants for former prince Andrew quashed after police accept they were unlawful judge rules
  38. WAtoday changed its headline Police Search warrants for former prince Andrew quashed after police accept they were unlawful judge rules
  39. ABC News changed its headline Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wins court battle to have over search warrants quashed
  40. ABC News rewrote its report (31 words in, 0 out)
  41. Brisbane Times changed its headline Police Search warrants for former prince Andrew quashed after police accept they were unlawful judge rules
  42. WAtoday filed Warrants for former Prince Andrew home unlawful
  43. The Age filed
  44. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  45. Brisbane Times filed
  46. SBS News (World) filed Ex-prince Andrew search warrants quashed but UK police probe continues
  47. The West Australian filed Andrew gets payout after surrendering lease in Windsor
  48. 7NEWS filed Former prince Andrew gets payout after surrendering lease in Windsor

WAtoday, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and The West Australian filed reports we only receive a summary of, so those are not scored here.

Each row is the same event as one outlet told it, and the shaded row is ours: one of these reports in our plainer version, scored by the same engines, with the report it came from named. The bottom row is the spread between the outlets — our own row is excluded from it, because including it would let us widen the gap we are advertising.

Each cell shows what the outlet filed and, under it in green where it differs, what our version of that same report reads. Those are the numbers on the article page and in the extension: one article, one pair of readings, wherever you meet it.

OutletHeadline Language LoadAdjectivesper 100 wordsMood
SBS News (World) Ex-prince Andrew search warrants quashed but UK police probe continues 6.50.748.3
7NEWS Judge says search warrants used to seize property from former prince Andrew were unlawful 11.22.350.3
ABC News Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wins court battle over search warrants 10.21.141.6
ABC News Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor taking police to court over Epstein files arrest 10.11.149.3
SBS News (World) Former prince Andrew taking legal action against police over search warrants 4.90.848.6
7NEWS Epstein files fallout: former Prince takes UK police to court over arrest 5.71.048.3
7NEWS Former prince Andrew gets payout after surrendering lease in Windsor 8.10.655.3
SBS News Former prince Andrew to reportedly sue over alleged unlawful police searches 5.71.048.3
Mundane Read our version of 7NEWS’s report, which arrived with a Language Load of 11.2 Judge says search warrants used to seize property from former prince Andrew were unlawful 81.650.3
Spread 6.31.713.7

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