🗞️ Story file #130
Jeffrey Archer, British novelist and politician, dies at 86
Oct 6, 2 AM ET to Oct 7, 7 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.2 dayson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 8people 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 6, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: AP
- Oct 6, 11 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
- Oct 7, 4 AM ETretold online by 8 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (2 wordings): “Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86” → “Jeffrey Archer: Successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Jeffrey Archer, bestselling UK novelist and scandal-plagued politician, dies aged 86” → “Jeffrey Archer, UK novelist and scandal-plagued politician, dies on eve of final book”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86 Oct 5, 5 PM ET
AP
Jeffrey Archer, bestselling British novelist and scandal-ridden politician, dies at 86 Oct 6, 2 AM ET
New York Times
Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86 Oct 5, 7 PM ET
BBC
Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86 Oct 5, 5 PM ET
Reuters
Jeffrey Archer, bestselling UK novelist and scandal-plagued politician, dies aged 86 Oct 5, 7 PM ET
The Sun
ICON GONE Legendary author Jeffrey Archer, 86, dies suddenly days before planned book gig Oct 6, 2 AM ET
IJR
Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer Dies at 86 Oct 6, 11 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
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🧶 Retelling
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🧶 Retold online
- Jeffrey Archer, a British novelist and former politician, died at 86, just one day before the release of his final novel. Oct 7: told by 8 people; told before on Oct 6
🧩 Final curtain 🧩 De mortuis nil nisi bonum
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🗣️ names in it: Jeffrey Archer Conservative Party
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🧵 Persistence
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