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Sydney councillor accuses Indigenous elder Mick Mundine of sexual assault

Reported by 7 outlets from 3 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

Each outlet's own headline. Struck through: the loaded words our plainer version leaves out. Fewest struck first.

How it developed · 25 steps
  1. Brisbane Times filed Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader charged with sexual assault of child
  2. The Age filed
  3. WAtoday filed
  4. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  5. The West Australian filed Sydney Indigenous leader Mick Mundine arrested over historical child sexual assault allegations
  6. ABC News filed Prominent Indigenous elder arrested over child sex assault allegation
  7. ABC News filed Prominent Indigenous elder charged over child sex assault allegation
  8. 7NEWS filed Mick Mundine: Prominent Indigenous leader charged over accusations of child sexual abuse
  9. Brisbane Times changed its headline Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader arrested over charged with sexual assault of childsex allegations
  10. The Age changed its headline Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader arrested over charged with sexual assault of childsex allegations
  11. The Sydney Morning Herald changed its headline Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader arrested over charged with sexual assault of childsex allegations
  12. 7NEWS changed its headline Mick Mundine: Prominent Indigenous leader arrested charged over accusations of historic child sexual abuse
  13. 7NEWS rewrote its report (52 words in, 5 out)
  14. WAtoday changed its headline Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader arrested over charged with sexual assault of childsex allegations
  15. WAtoday filed Prolific Indigenous elder charged over historical child abuse allegation
  16. The Age filed
  17. Brisbane Times filed
  18. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  19. The Age filed ‘Break the culture of silence’: City of Sydney councillor accuses Mick Mundine of sexual assault
  20. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  21. WAtoday filed
  22. Brisbane Times filed
  23. ABC News filed Sydney councillor accuses Indigenous elder Mick Mundine of sexual assault
  24. 7NEWS filed Mick Mundine: Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon identifies herself as alleged victim in sexual assault case
  25. The West Australian filed Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon named as complainant in Mick Mundine sexual assault case

The West Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday and Brisbane Times 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
7NEWS Mick Mundine: Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon identifies herself as alleged victim in sexual assault case 10.82.430.6
ABC News Sydney councillor accuses Indigenous elder Mick Mundine of sexual assault 5.60.823
7NEWS Mick Mundine: Prominent Indigenous leader charged over accusations of child sexual abuse 15.12.216.2
ABC News Prominent Indigenous elder arrested over child sex assault allegation 6.50.720.8
ABC News Prominent Indigenous elder charged over child sex assault allegation 6.80.720.9
Mundane Read our version of 7NEWS’s report, which arrived with a Language Load of 15.1 Mick Mundine: Prominent Indigenous leader charged over accusations of child sexual abuse 10.61.116.2
Spread 9.51.714.4

A reading is a column only when it finds something in this story, the rule that lists it beside an article. What each one means.