🗞️ Story file #1179
G20 group photo canceled over Russia's presence
Oct 30, 2 PM ET to Oct 31, 6 AM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 4 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 16 hourson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 12 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
- 15people retold it online
👣 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 30, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
- Oct 30, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 30, 9 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
- Oct 30, 9 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 31, 5 AM ETretold online by 15 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 Wire copy
1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word
HuffPost
💬 Quoted
- “family photo”3
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)
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- AP (2 wordings): “US scraps G20 photo after European diplomats object to being pictured with Russia's Lavrov” → “Consensus looks elusive at G20 talks after European objections to Russia cancel group photo”
- HuffPost (2 wordings): “U.S. Scraps G20 Photo After European Allies Object To Russia’s Participation” → “Consensus Looks Elusive At G20 Talks After European Objections To Russia Cancel Group Photo”
- Independent Journal Review (2 wordings): “G20 Photo Scrapped in Atlanta Over Russian Minister's Presence” → “US Scraps G20 Photo Over Lavrov Presence”
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “U.S. scraps G20 group photo after European diplomats refuse to pose with Russia's Lavrov” → “U.S. cancels G20 photo after diplomats object to posing with Russia's Lavrov”
Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
U.S. Scraps G20 Photo After European Allies Object To Russia’s Participation Oct 30, 11 AM ET
The Guardian
US cancels G20 ‘family photo’ after Australia, UK and others refuse to appear with Russia Oct 30, 9 PM ET
AP
US scraps G20 photo after European diplomats object to being pictured with Russia's Lavrov Oct 30, 1 PM ET
CNN
G20 photo scrapped amid tensions over Russian foreign minister’s presence Oct 30, 3 PM ET
Yahoo News
U.S. scraps G20 group photo after European diplomats refuse to pose with Russia's Lavrov Oct 30, 2 PM ET
BBC
G20 'family photo' cancelled after protests over presence of Russian minister Oct 30, 2 PM ET
Bloomberg
G20 Photo Scrapped After Leaders Object to Russia’s Presence Oct 30, 11 AM ET
Reuters
G20 foreign ministers skip photo-op amid objections over Russia Oct 30, 2 PM ET
The Hill
G20 foreign ministers scrap ‘family photo’ as Lavrov crashes party Oct 30, 7 PM ET
IJR
G20 Photo Scrapped in Atlanta Over Russian Minister's Presence Oct 30, 1 PM ET
Newsmax
US Scraps G20 Photo Over Lavrov's Presence Oct 30, 1 PM ET
The National Desk
G20 photo scrapped last minute after European officials refuse to be pictured with Russia Oct 30, 4 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- leans left
- center
📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- The United States canceled the traditional G20 foreign ministers' group photo after several nations refused to stand alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Oct 31: told by 15 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
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🔎 Checking
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🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.