TWO college students found dead after hiking trip

🗞️ Story file #1133

TWO college students found dead after hiking trip

Oct 29, 12 PM ET to Oct 31, 12 PM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏5 · 0 · 4🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak

📰 read it at: The Daily Beast The Guardian ABC News AP The Independent The Sun Fox News IJR New York Post

👣 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 29, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News
Oct 30, 12 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 12 PM to Oct 31, 12 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“A gut punch”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

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

ABC News (2 wordings): “2 college students found dead after going missing while hiking, police say” → “2 Colorado hikers missing found dead: Police”
The Sun (2 wordings): “HORROR LOSS Haunting warning sign found near tent of missing student hikers in Colorado” → “HORROR LOSS Haunting warning sign found near tent of missing student hikers in Colorado TWO Colorado college students were found dead after a mountain hike, a day after rescuers discovered their snow-covered tent with no footprints nearby”

📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating

The Daily Beast🕒 Oct 29, 11 AM ET Search for College Hikers Who Vanished Comes to Tragic End
The Guardian🕒 Oct 29, 9 AM ET Two Colorado college students found dead after going missing during hike
ABC News🕒 Oct 29, 6 AM ET 2 college students found dead after going missing while hiking, police say
AP🕒 Oct 30, 12 AM ET Bodies of 2 Colorado students and aspiring outdoorsmen are recovered after they died on hiking trip
The Independent🕒 Oct 29, 9 AM ET Two young hikers found dead in remote Colorado basin after brutal mountain blizzard
The Sun🕒 Oct 29, 11 AM ET HORROR LOSS Haunting warning sign found near tent of missing student hikers in Colorado
Fox News🕒 Oct 29, 4 PM ET Deputies find bodies of missing college students who went hiking on treacherous mountain trail
IJR🕒 Oct 31, 12 AM ET Missing Colorado Hikers Found Dead
New York Post🕒 Oct 29, 8 AM ET Two college students who went missing on Ice Mountain hike are found dead: ‘A gut punch’

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🎙️🤷 No show matched to it yet.

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🃏 The Onion 1

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

ColoradoIce MountainTwo college studentsRemote Colorado basinBrutal mountain blizzard

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

TWO college students found dead after hiking trip

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🕵️ Investigated, joked about

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