🗞️ Story file #879
Russia releases American Stephen Hubbard after over 4 years in prison
Oct 23, 11 AM ET to Oct 23, 1 PM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 13 of 20parts of a saga
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👣 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 23, 11 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
🗣️ Only one side says
- 🫏 left
- 4 years
- russia frees american
- 🐘 right
- nothing of its own
phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other
📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating
- AP🕒 Oct 21, 2 PM ET
Russia frees American Stephen Hubbard after over 4 years behind bars
- CBS News🕒 Oct 22, 10 AM ET
Stephen Hubbard back in U.S. after release from Russian prison
- Military.com🕒 Oct 21, 9 AM ET
Russia Frees American Stephen Hubbard After Over 4 Years in Prison, During a Visit by US Envoy
- NBC News🕒 Oct 21, 10 AM ET
Who is Stephen Hubbard, the retired American teacher freed by Russia?
- News Nation🕒 Oct 21, 10 PM ET
Stephen Hubbard release from Russia gives detainee families hope
- The Hill🕒 Oct 22, 12 PM ET
Stephen Hubbard returns to US after years in Russian prison
- IJR🕒 Oct 21, 11 AM ET
Russia Releases 74-Year-Old American Stephen Hubbard
- Newsmax🕒 Oct 21, 3 PM ET
Trump Hails Stephen Hubbard's Return From Russia
- OAN🕒 Oct 22, 1 PM ET
Trump: Stephen Hubbard has returned to the U.S. after being wrongfully imprisoned by Russia
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- center
- right
🎙️ On the shows
podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation
🕵️ Investigated, joked about
🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces
🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
🧶 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.
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🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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