👤 Leander Schaerlaeckens

4 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-10-08 – 2026-10-29
Claims per article
39
156 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,535
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
50%
Sports
50%
Most-tagged topics
World CupAustinAustin FCAustin FC’sBayern MunichBorussia Dortmund’sBundesligaDortmund

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.35 (leans left).

More from this journalist

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2026-10-29 · The Guardian · Sports
A phone-free Yellow Wall: are Dortmund urging fans to be present or policing them?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-22 · The Guardian · Politics
Trump’s Fifa peace prize was a sham. A reimagined award can still have meaning | Leander Schaerlaeckens
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-10-14 · The Guardian · Politics
MLS’s political speech policy is untenable – just ask Austin FC fans
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-08 · The Guardian · Sports
With no Pulisic and good results, have the USMNT moved on from their savior complex? | Leander Schaerlaeckens
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-10-08 · The Guardian
With no Pulisic and good results, have the USMNT moved on from their savior complex? | Leander Schaerlaeckens
🔮 And this bullishness on the hazily outlined not-right-now-but-definitely-sometime-later-on tended to coalesce around one player, maybe two. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Guardian
MLS’s political speech policy is untenable – just ask Austin FC fans
🔮 It may well be that Austin FC’s hands were tied by league regulations. assertive
2026-10-22 · The Guardian
Trump’s Fifa peace prize was a sham. A reimagined award can still have meaning | Leander Schaerlaeckens
🔮 It has been charged with recasting the prize into a recognition of social harmony and responsibility, as the Guardian has reported, and will probably seek to depoliticize it – or at least stop awarding it to politicians. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Guardian
A phone-free Yellow Wall: are Dortmund urging fans to be present or policing them?
🔮 If they activated a so-called “fan mode” on the club’s app – a name so phenomenally passive-aggressive you can only applaud whoever came up with it – the club could count who unlocked their phones the fewest times during the game. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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