🗞️ Story file #1207
Ebola outbreak in Congo kills more than 5,000
Oct 31, 11 AM ET to Nov 1, 5 AM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 19 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 7 minof TV captions
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
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- Oct 31, 11 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 31, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
- Oct 31, 11 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 Wire copy
2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word
NBC News, The Washington Post
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- AP (2 wordings): “Congo’s Ebola deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts” → “Congo’s Ebola deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts - AP News”
📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating
- AP🕒 Oct 31, 7 AM ET
Congo’s Ebola deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts
- NBC News🕒 Oct 31, 9 AM ET
Congo Ebola outbreak deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts
- The Washington Post🕒 Oct 31, 5 AM ET
Congo's Ebola deaths top 5,000 as worry of continent-wide spread mounts
- BBC🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET
More than 5,000 die from Ebola in DR Congo's deadliest outbreak
- Reuters🕒 Oct 30, 7 PM ET
Congo Ebola outbreak kills more than 5,000
- Newsmax🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET
Congo Ebola Deaths Top 5,000 as African Spread Raises Alarm
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
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📺 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
📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
Democratic Republic of the CongoEbolaAfrica
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Ebola outbreak in Congo
Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 10,000 cases
Oct 27, 2 PM ET
Ebola outbreak in Congo kills more than 5,000 (this story)
Oct 31, 11 AM ET