BND - Venezuelan opposition leader returns to country

🗞️ Story file #943

Venezuelan opposition leader returns to country

Oct 25, 1 PM ET to Oct 26, 4 AM ET

26outlets carried it
🫏13 · 6 · 7🐘left · center · right
15 hourson the front pages
26front pages at once, at its peak
12 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts

👣 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 25, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
Oct 25, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 25, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 25, 10 PM ETpeak: on 26 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 25, 1 PM to Oct 26, 4 AM ET (peak 26), 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: 3 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CBS News, CNN, The Guardian)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “I Am Here. With You.” 2

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 venezuelan opposition

✏️ 9 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (4 wordings): “Machado Returns to Venezuela, Testing Rodríguez’s Regime Opening” → “Venezuela: Maria Corina Machado’s Return Fuels Hope for Shift to Democracy”
CNN (3 wordings): “Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returns to Venezuela from exile” → “Venezuela’s Machado returns from exile to crowds of cheering supporters After more than 10 months in exile, the Venezuelan opposition leader returns home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States”
Independent Journal Review (3 wordings): “Machado Returns to Venezuela Amid Opposition Protests” → “Machado Returns, Pressuring Venezuela’s Interim President”
NBC News (4 wordings): “Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exil” → “Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exile”
NPR (2 wordings): “Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exile” → “Who is María Corina Machado, Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winning opposition leader?”
Newsmax (4 wordings): “EXCLUSIVE: Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Returns to Venezuela, Plans Public Appearance Today” → “Opposition's María Corina Machado Returns to Venezuela, Makes Public Appearance”
Red State (2 wordings): “Machado Back in Venezuela: ‘I Am Here. With You.’” → “Machado Back in Venezuela: ‘I Am Here. With You.’ Ward Clark”
Reuters (3 wordings): “Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returns to Venezuela” → “Opposition leader Machado greets supporters after returning to Venezuela”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela” → “Exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to rapturous reception in Venezuela”