👤 John Laurenson

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-07-30 – 2026-08-05
Claims per article
49
98 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,180
characters
Writes for BBC News.
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

Environment
50%
Technology
50%
Most-tagged topics
FranceFrenchFireTrackingHyper UParisPortugalSpainYuka

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; 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 -0.17 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-08-05 · BBC News · Environment
How tech is helping in the battle against wildfires
3 outlets covered this event
2026-07-30 · BBC News · Technology
Is tracking your food purchases good for your health?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-07-30 · BBC News
Is tracking your food purchases good for your health?
🔮 Download it and you can use your phone to scan the barcodes of any one of the six million products on the Yuka database (about 1,200 new ones a day) and it'll tell you immediately – green for good, red for bad, yellow for could be better. assertive
2026-08-05 · BBC News
How tech is helping in the battle against wildfires
🔮 "Next to that real-time video there's a map with the exact location of the fire, the position of any nearby houses and a simulation of how, given the weather, the level of humidity and so on, it is expected to spread from minute to minute," he adds. 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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