Perhaps 300 million people followed the 13 November cricket match between India and Pakistan, which Pakistan's team won, and were affected to an extent of 8 life-hours each, for a total of 2.4 billion life-hours / 24 hours/day / 365 days/year = 270,000 life-years.

Human News aims to devote 1 character to each 40,000 life-years, or 1000 average lives. Thus, this story can have about 270,000 / 40,000 = 7 characters.