BND - Ethiopian government retakes Tigray regional capital

🗞️ Story file #94

Ethiopian government retakes Tigray regional capital

Oct 5, 10 AM ET to Oct 5, 4 PM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏3 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions
1 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 5, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: Semafor
Oct 5, 10 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Oct 5, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 10 AM to Oct 5, 4 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 AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Los Angeles Times)

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Ethiopia’s government retakes Mekelle after opposition fighters withdraw from Tigray capital” → “Ethiopia’s government retakes Mekelle after opposition fighters withdraw from Tigray capital - apnews.com”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Government forces seize capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region from rebels - Reuters” → “Government forces seize capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region from rebels”

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