Three Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years each for sex trafficking

🗞️ Story file #1040

Three Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years each for sex trafficking

Oct 27, 5 PM ET to Oct 28, 5 AM ET

23outlets carried it
🫏13 · 5 · 5🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast
17people retold it online

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Oct 27, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 27, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 28, 12 AM ETpeak: on 23 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 17 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 5 PM to Oct 28, 5 AM ET (peak 23), 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: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Axios, Yahoo News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “serial rapists” “hookup culture” “Serial rapist”

✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison after women spoke of being drugged and raped by them” → “Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison after women speak of being drugged and raped by them”
BBC (2 wordings): “Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking case” → “Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years in prison in sex trafficking case”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking” → “Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking Alon, Tal and Oren Alexander faced several of their victims during an emotional, hourslong hearing”
Mediaite (2 wordings): “JUST IN: Alexander Brothers Sentenced to 30 Years Each After Sex Trafficking Conviction” → “Alexander Brothers Sentenced to 30 Years Each After Sex Trafficking Conviction”
NBC News (2 wordings): “BREAKING: Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years on federal sex trafficking charges” → “Alexander brothers, ex-luxury real estate brokers, sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Sobbing victims deliver wrenching court statements before rapist Alexander brothers face their sentence” → “Rapist Alexander brothers still face lawsuits, criminal charges after being sentenced to prison”
News Nation (3 wordings): “All 3 Alexander brothers get 30 years in prison for sex crimes” → “All 3 Alexander brothers sentenced 30 years each in prison for sex crimes”
Tampa Bay Times (2 wordings): “Florida’s Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years each for sex trafficking • News comment” → “Florida’s Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years each for sex trafficking”
The Independent (2 wordings): “'Serial rapist' Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years after blaming 'hookup culture' for depraved acts” → “Alexander brothers cry while getting sentenced for being 'serial rapists'”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “3 Alexander brothers each get 30 years for sex trafficking after women speak in court” → “Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison after sex trafficking convictions”