BND - Starbucks denies plans to acquire Chipotle

🗞️ Story file #385

Starbucks denies plans to acquire Chipotle

Oct 12, 5 PM ET to Oct 12, 11 PM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏4 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
2 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 12, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: Fox Business
Oct 12, 6 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 5 PM to Oct 12, 11 PM ET (peak 7), 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

💬 quoted: “not buying Chipotle”

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

CBS News (2 wordings): “Starbucks denies plan to buy Chipotle after report of possible takeover” → “Starbucks denies plan to buy Chipotle, refuting report”
Fox Business (2 wordings): “Starbucks says it is not buying Chipotle following deal speculation” → “Starbucks rules out buying Chipotle after report of potential takeover”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Starbucks says not buying Chipotle, ends takeover speculation” → “Starbucks says not buying Chipotle, ends takeover speculation - Reuters”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating