Actor Patrick Stewart dies at 86

🗞️ Story file #1144

Actor Patrick Stewart dies at 86

Oct 29, 4 PM ET to Oct 30, 6 AM ET

39outlets carried it
🫏21 · 6 · 12🐘left · center · right
14 hourson the front pages
39front pages at once, at its peak
47 minof TV captions
13radio newscasts
34people retold it online

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Oct 29, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Rolling Stone
Oct 29, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 29, 5 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 29, 11 PM ETpeak: on 39 front pages
Oct 30, 4 AM ETretold online by 34 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 4 PM to Oct 30, 6 AM ET (peak 39), 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, 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.

📡 Wire copy

3 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word

Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo News

💬 Quoted

“Star Trek”24
“X-Men”20
“We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “'Star Trek' actor Patrick Stewart dies at 86” → “'Star Trek,' 'X-Men' star Patrick Stewart dies at 86”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart Dead at 86” → “Patrick Stewart, Hollywood Icon, ‘Star Trek’ ‘X-Men’ Star, Dies at 86”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor turned ‘Star Trek’ captain and ‘X-Men’ star, dies at 86” → “Patrick Stewart died Wednesday”
Military.com (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart, Dead at 86, Known as 'Star Trek' Captain and Veterans' Mental Health Advocate Read More” → “Patrick Stewart, Dead at 86, Known as 'Star Trek' Captain and Veterans' Mental Health Advocate”
NBC News (3 wordings): “BREAKING: Patrick Stewart, beloved actor best known for his iconic ‘Star Trek’ role as Jean-Luc Picard, dies at 86” → “Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor turned ‘X-Men’ star, dies at 86”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Beloved ‘Star Trek’ actor Patrick Stewart dead at 86” → “Patrick Stewart’s cause of death revealed after actor died at 86”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “Latest Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ Star, Dies at 86” → “Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ Star, Dies at 86”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor turned 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86 - Reuters” → “Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor turned 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86”
Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart, Beloved ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ Actor, Dead at 86” → “Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' Captain and 'X-Men' Superhero, Dies at 86”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart, titan of stage and screen, dies aged 86” → “Patrick Stewart, Star Trek actor and acclaimed thespian, dies aged 86”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Patrick Stewart death: Star Trek star dies aged 86” → “Patrick Stewart who gained fame as Captain Picard on Star Trek dies at 86 after short battle with Alzheimer's”
Yahoo News (3 wordings): “Stage giant Patrick Stewart, of 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men' fame, dies at 86” → “Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' captain and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86”