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🗞️ Story file #599

Protesters rally across France with clashes and looting

Oct 17, 9 PM ET to Oct 17, 9 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 17, 9 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  2. Oct 17, 9 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 17, 6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMReutersReutersReuters, Oct 17, 3:00 AM ET: Students, trade unions and Yellow Vests set to protest across France📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 17, 9:09 PM ET: the lead
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.
Every outlet's first headline (1), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📻 On the radio

  • NPR News Now, Oct 17, 9:09 PM ET: the lead

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Majority Report

🧶 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: France Students Yellow Vests Trade Unions Protesters

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 France protests and migrant tensions

  1. France closes up to 500 schools amid student protests

    Oct 5, 7 AM ET

  2. Trump blames France protests on migration and Islam

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

  3. French student protests continue amid escalating tensions and government response

    Oct 4, 1 PM ET

  4. Greta Thunberg joins French student protests

    Oct 13, 6 PM ET

  5. Protesters rally across France with clashes and looting (this story)

    Oct 17, 9 PM ET

  6. French president vows to hold accountable those involved in protests

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET

  7. Protesters block access to Louvre museum in Paris

    Oct 19, 3 PM ET

  8. Far-left activist arrested after historic town hall fire in limoges

    Oct 19, 10 AM ET

  9. Trump references French riots in midterm campaign

    Oct 18, 1 PM ET

  10. France experiences riots and unrest following fuel price protests

    Oct 17, 11 AM ET

  11. Macron criticizes foreign leaders for 'stupid' comments on French riots

    Oct 21, 10 AM ET

  12. Louvre and other museums close Saturday due to protest concerns

    Oct 23, 11 PM ET

  13. France bans non-union protests amid unrest

    Oct 22, 10 AM ET

  14. France prepares for new protests with increased police presence

    Oct 19, 9 AM ET

  15. NFL cancels Paris fan event amid protests

    Oct 20, 10 AM ET

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