🗞️ Story file #355
Two American economists win 2026 Nobel prize in economics
Oct 12, 7 AM ET to Oct 12, 10 PM ET
- 21outlets carried it
- 🫏13 · 6 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 15 hourson the front pages
- 21front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
- 3radio newscasts
- 12people retold it online
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- Oct 12, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: AP
- Oct 12, 8 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 12, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 12, 9 AM ETretold online by 12 people
- Oct 12, 5 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 5 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CNBC, Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, NBC News, PBS NewsHour)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “smoothing”
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- AP (2 wordings): “Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel memorial prize in economics” → “2 American economists win Nobel for overturning assumptions about how to deal with economic shocks”
- Financial Times (2 wordings): “Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford” → “Two economists who transformed crisis management win Nobel Prize”
- NPR (2 wordings): “Two Americans win Nobel Prize in Economics for work on boom-bust cycles” → “2 Americans win Nobel Prize in economics for work on boom-bust cycles”
- Reuters (4 wordings): “Americans Hall and Woodford win Nobel economics prize for work on stabilisation” → “Hall, Woodford win Nobel prize for work on how to stabilise economies - Reuters”
- The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “REPLAY: 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics Announced” → “2 Americans Win Nobel Prize for Theories of Stabilizing Economies”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Nobel prize for economics awarded to two Americans, Hall and Woodford, for work on New Keynesian models” → “Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford for work on ‘smoothing’ crises”
Every outlet's first headline (21), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Robert E. Hall And Michael Woodford Win Nobel Memorial Prize In Economics Oct 12, 6 AM ET
The Guardian
Nobel prize for economics awarded to two Americans, Hall and Woodford, for work on New Keynesian models Oct 12, 6 AM ET
AP
Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel memorial prize in economics Oct 12, 7 AM ET
Axios
U.S. economists win Nobel for work on managing economic shocks Oct 12, 8 AM ET
CBS News
Nobel Prize in economics goes to 2 Americans Oct 12, 7 AM ET
CNBC
Nobel prize in economics awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford Oct 12, 9 AM ET
NBC News
Americans Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel in economics Oct 12, 4 PM ET
NPR
Two Americans win Nobel Prize in Economics for work on boom-bust cycles Oct 12, 8 AM ET
New York Times
Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford Awarded Nobel for Economics Oct 12, 7 AM ET
PBS NewsHour
WATCH: 2 American economists win Nobel for studying how to deal with economic shocks Oct 12, 10 AM ET
The Independent
Nobel prize awarded to US economists for work in shock management Oct 12, 8 AM ET
USA Today
Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel economics prize for helping equip nations to deal with economic shocks Oct 12, 7 AM ET
Yahoo News
2 American economists win Nobel for work on managing economic shocks Oct 12, 10 AM ET
Bloomberg
Crisis Theorists Recasting Ideas of Keynes Share Nobel Prize Oct 12, 5 PM ET
Chicago Tribune
2 American economists win Nobel prize for overturning assumptions about how to deal with economic shocks Oct 12, 8 AM ET- Financial Times Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford Oct 12, 7 AM ET
Forbes
Two Americans Win The 2026 Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences Oct 12, 7 AM ET
Reuters
Americans Hall and Woodford win Nobel economics prize for work on stabilisation Oct 12, 7 AM ET
Scripps News
World News Nobel goes to American economists who redefined economic shocks AP via Scripps News Group Oct 12, 1 PM ET
The Epoch Times
REPLAY: 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics Announced Oct 12, 11 AM ET
IJR
Hall, Woodford Win 2026 Nobel Economics Prize Oct 12, 8 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Nobel prize for economics awarded BBC News, 2 min
- US academics win Nobel economics prize BBC News, 86 s
- TWO AMERICANS WIN NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS CNN, 25 s
- Nobel Prize for Economics BBC News, 22 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 12, 8:10 PM ET: story 2 of 4
- NPR News Now, Oct 12, 11:09 AM ET: story 4 of 6
- NPR News Now, Oct 12, 8:09 AM ET: story 3 of 5
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics for their research on economic stabilization. Oct 12: told by 12 people
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🗣️ names in it: Robert E. Hall Michael Woodford Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Committee
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