🗞️ Story file #1008
Finnish and Norwegian leaders hold rare call with Putin
Oct 27, 8 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 5 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 22 hourson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 7 minof TV captions
- 25people retold it online
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- Oct 27, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
- Oct 27, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 27, 4 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
- Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 25 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “Frank and Substantive” 2 “direct discussions” “new momentum” “Frank” “significant differences” “substantive” “frank and substantive” 2
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 finland hold rare call 🫏 vladimir putin
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Financial Times (2 wordings): “Putin speaks with Norwegian and Finnish leaders” → “Putin lectures Nordic leaders on Russian history”
- Reuters (4 wordings): “Leaders of Norway, Finland hold calls with Putin then Zelenskiy” → “Two Nordic leaders urge Putin to end Ukraine war in rare direct contact by Europeans - Reuters”
- The Guardian (4 wordings): “Finnish and Norwegian leaders hold rare ‘frank and substantive’ call with Putin on Ukraine” → “Kyiv hopes for ‘new momentum’ in peace talks after Finnish and Norwegian leaders’ call with Putin”
- Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Norway and Finland break norms by phoning Putin directly to urge breakthroughs at trilateral talks” → “Norway and Finland break norms by phoning Putin directly to urge breakthroughs”
Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Leaders Of Norway, Finland Hold Rare Call With Vladimir Putin Oct 27, 7 AM ET
The Guardian
Finnish and Norwegian leaders hold rare ‘frank and substantive’ call with Putin on Ukraine Oct 27, 6 AM ET
NBC News
Leaders of Norway, Finland hold rare call with Putin in break with previous European stance Oct 27, 4 PM ET
The Independent
Finland and Norway hold 'direct discussions' with Vladimir Putin Oct 27, 8 AM ET
BBC
Norway and Finland leaders hold rare call with Putin Oct 27, 10 AM ET
Bloomberg
Finland and Norway Hold ‘Frank’ Call With Putin on Ukraine Oct 27, 6 AM ET- Financial Times Putin speaks with Norwegian and Finnish leaders Oct 27, 9 AM ET
Reuters
Leaders of Norway, Finland hold calls with Putin then Zelenskiy Oct 27, 8 AM ET
The Hill
Finland’s Stubb and Norway PM call Putin in break with previous European stance Oct 27, 2 PM ET
The Epoch Times
Finland and Norway Held ‘Frank and Substantive’ Phone Call With Putin, Finnish President Says Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Norway and Finland break norms by phoning Putin directly to urge breakthroughs at trilateral talks Oct 27, 1 PM ET
IJR
Putin Plans Ukraine Talks With Finnish, Norwegian Leaders Oct 27, 8 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Norway and Finland leaders hold rare call with Putin BBC News, 4 min
- Stubb: Putin call 'professional and direct' BBC News, 2 min
- Norway and Finland leaders call Russian President Putin BBC News, 66 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Finland's President Alexander Stubb and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre called Vladimir Putin to urge an end to the war in Ukraine. Oct 28: told by 25 people
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🗣️ names in it: Vladimir Putin Norway Finland Ukraine Viktor Zelenskiy
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