BND - Drones strike ships in Black Sea, one sinks

🗞️ Story file #399

Drones strike ships in Black Sea, one sinks

Oct 13, 5 AM ET to Oct 13, 7 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏3 · 3 · 2🐘left · center · right
14 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
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 13, 5 AM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
Oct 13, 6 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 13, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 13, 12 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 5 AM to Oct 13, 7 PM ET (peak 8), 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: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News, Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1 and prompting rescue operations, Bulgaria says” → “Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1 and prompting rescue operations, Bulgaria says - AP News”
BBC (3 wordings): “Ship sinks in new drone attack off Bulgaria, PM summons Russian ambassador” → “Bulgaria summons Russian ambassador after ship sinks in Black Sea drone attack”
Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Bulgaria Summons Russian Ambassador as Drones Hit More Ships” → “Bulgaria Points to Russia as Drones Hit More Cargo Ships”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1 and prompting rescue operations” → “11 sailors missing after drone sinks ships in Black Sea”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Drones Hit Ships in Black Sea, Sinking 1 and Prompting Rescue Operations, Bulgaria Says” → “Drones Hit Ships in Black Sea, Sinking 1 and Prompting Rescue Operations”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Drone sinks ship off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, prime minister says” → “Eleven sailors missing after drone sinks ship off Bulgaria”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating