🗞️ Story file #307
Three men convicted in killings of Australian brothers and American friend in Mexico
Oct 9, 9 PM ET to Oct 11, 8 PM ET
- 10outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 2 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
- 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 9, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 10, 5 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
- Oct 10, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 10, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (3 wordings): “Three men found guilty of murdering two Australian surfer brothers and US friend” → “Three men found guilty of murdering Australian brothers and US friend in Mexico”
- CBS News (2 wordings): “3 men convicted of killing American, Australian surfers in Mexico” → “3 men found guilty in murders of American, Australian surfers in Mexico”
- Fox News (2 wordings): “Three men found guilty of murdering Australian brothers and American friend on Mexico surfing trip” → “Surf trip that ended with 3 bodies in a well leads to murder convictions in Mexico”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Trial in killings of 3 US, Australian surfers in Mexico nears verdict” → “3 Mexican men found guilty of killing Australian brothers, US pal on surfing trip”
Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
3 Convicted In Killings Of 2 Australian Brothers And American Friend On Mexico Surf Trip Oct 9, 9 PM ET
The Guardian
Three men found guilty of murders of Australian surfer brothers and US friend in Mexico Oct 9, 7 PM ET
AP
Judge convicts 3 Mexicans in the killings of 2 Australian brothers and American friend on surf trip Oct 9, 7 PM ET
CBS News
3 men convicted of killing American, Australian surfers in Mexico Oct 9, 9 PM ET
Yahoo News
3 men found guilty of murdering 3 surfers in Mexico Oct 10, 5 AM ET
BBC
Three men found guilty of murdering two Australian surfer brothers and US friend Oct 9, 7 PM ET
Reuters
Mexican court finds three men guilty of 2024 killing of Australian, US surfers Oct 9, 9 PM ET
Fox News
Three men found guilty of murdering Australian brothers and American friend on Mexico surfing trip Oct 11, 6 PM ET
New York Post
Trial in killings of 3 US, Australian surfers in Mexico nears verdict Oct 9, 8 AM ET
Newsmax
Judge Convicts 3 Mexicans in the Killings of 2 Australian Brothers and American Friend on Surf Trip Oct 9, 9 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- AN IMPERFECT MURDER CNN, 2 min
- the kind of murder cases we get MSNOW, 14 s
- I mean, she's never not had the kids MSNOW, 7 s
- I'm alone. It's been done. There's no getting her back MSNOW, 7 s
- Incentive to commit a crime MSNOW, 7 s
- I can't say my heart's been that near... But, goodness, I can sympathize with you MSNOW, 6 s
- I drove up there MSNOW, 6 s
- I JUST Keep people's privacy. I mean, we talked, but we didn't talk about that MSNOW, 6 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 11, 8:10 AM ET: story 4 of 5
- NPR News Now, Oct 10, 8:10 PM ET: story 3 of 3
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Mexico Australia
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Mexico triple murder case
Three men convicted in killings of Australian brothers and American friend in Mexico (this story)
Oct 9, 9 PM ET
Three men sentenced to 158 years in Mexico for killing Australian and US surfers
Oct 17, 8 AM ET