BND - Boat capsizes off Djibouti, killing 109 and leaving 116 missing

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Boat capsizes off Djibouti, killing 109 and leaving 116 missing

Oct 11, 9 AM ET to Oct 11, 6 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏4 · 3 · 3🐘left · center · right
9 hourson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
10 minof TV captions

👣 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 11, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 11, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 11, 3 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 11, 9 AM to Oct 11, 6 PM 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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News)

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 139 migrants 🫏 least 139 🐘 including 15 children

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

BBC (2 wordings): “Children among 109 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says” → “Children among 139 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says”
Reuters (2 wordings): “109 migrants, including 15 children dead after boat from Djibouti to Yemen capsizes, UN agency says” → “At least 139 migrants dead, including some children, after boat from Djibouti to Yemen capsizes, UN agency says”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating