BND - Houthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh

🗞️ Story file #66

Houthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh

Oct 4, 2 PM ET to Oct 5, 6 PM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏3 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
23 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
2 of 3parts 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 4, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Oct 4, 6 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Oct 4, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 5, 11 AM 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 4, 2 PM to Oct 5, 6 PM ET (peak 6), 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 Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News)

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Reuters (4 wordings): “Yemen's Houthis say they attacked Aramco facility in Riyadh with missiles, drones” → “Oil climbs after Yemeni Houthis attack Saudi Aramco sites - reuters.com”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating