BND - Starbucks explored takeover of Chipotle

🗞️ Story file #236

Starbucks explored takeover of Chipotle

Oct 8, 12 PM ET to Oct 10, 12 AM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏6 · 4 · 1🐘left · center · right
1.5 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
1 of 2parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 8, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: Axios
Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 12 PM to Oct 10, 12 AM ET (peak 10), 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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

New York Post (2 wordings): “Starbucks reportedly explored Chipotle takeover — as burrito chain’s shares surge” → “Second helping Starbucks reportedly explored Chipotle takeover — as burrito chain’s shares surge”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Starbucks has explored Chipotle takeover, FT reports” → “Starbucks has explored Chipotle takeover, FT reports - Reuters”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating