🧵 Saga file #46
Pope Leo lung cancer surgery
Oct 11, 7 AM ET to Oct 13, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 43outlets carried a part
- 🫏19 · 9 · 15🐘left · center · right
- 2.5 daysrunning so far
- 140 minof TV captions
- 15radio newscasts
- 23people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 11, 7 AM ET · on the front pages 2.5 daysPope Leo XIV undergoes successful lung nodule surgery
- Oct 13, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 1 hourVatican confirms Pope has lung cancer, part of right lung removed
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1. Pope Leo XIV undergoes successful lung nodule surgery
Oct 11, 7 AM ET · 37 outlets · on the front pages 2.5 days · 🔴 now
“Pope Leo to have "nodule" removed from lung” first: Axios, BBC, NBC News, News Nation, Newsmax, Reuters, Yahoo News
📺 CNN 88 min, BBC News 30 min, Fox News 18 min, MSNOW 61 s · 📻 15 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 23
2. Vatican confirms Pope has lung cancer, part of right lung removed
Oct 13, 5 PM ET · 32 outlets · on the front pages 1 hour · 🔴 now
“Pope Leo diagnosed with lung cancer, Vatican says” first: ABC News, Axios, BBC, CBS News, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Fox News, HuffPost, Just the News, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Post, New York Times, News Nation, Newsmax, Newsweek, Scripps News, Star Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Daily Wire, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Washington Times, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Yahoo News
📺 CNN 3 min
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- Pope Leo XIV is undergoing surgery to remove a lung nodule. told by 23 people, on “Pope Leo XIV undergoes successful lung nodule surgery”