European Central Bank President to step down nine months early

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European Central Bank President to step down nine months early

Oct 29, 8 AM ET to Oct 30, 5 AM ET

19outlets carried it
🫏7 · 4 · 8🐘left · center · right
21 hourson the front pages
19front pages at once, at its peak

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Oct 29, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: Axios
Oct 29, 4 PM ETpeak: on 19 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 8 AM to Oct 30, 5 AM ET (peak 19), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word

New York Post

💬 Quoted

“freedom of speech”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (3 wordings): “European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will resign Feb. 7, nine months early” → “European Central Bank head resigns, allowing search for successor to begin before French election - AP News”
Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Christine Lagarde to Leave ECB Early, Igniting Race to Replace Her” → “Lagarde Quits ECB to Shed Neutrality, Enter Political Fray”
CNBC (2 wordings): “Who could replace Christine Lagarde as European Central Bank President?” → “The politics of President Lagarde's European Central Bank early exit — and who could replace her”
Just the News (2 wordings): “President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde stepping down next year” → “European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says she will step down from post in February”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “European Central Bank President to Resign Early” → “European Central Bank President to Step Down 9 Months Early”
Reuters (5 wordings): “ECB President Lagarde resigns at time of mounting challenges for Europe” → “ECB's Lagarde resigns early so she can speak freely on topics beyond monetary policy”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Europe’s central bank chief Christine Lagarde to step down nine months early” → “Europe’s central bank chief, Christine Lagarde, steps down for ‘freedom of speech’”

Every outlet's first headline (19), left to right by AllSides rating