🗞️ Story file #1435
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison
Nov 4, 11 PM ET to Nov 5, 10 AM ET
- 15outlets carried it
- 🫏7 · 3 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 11 hourson the front pages
- 15front pages at once, at its peak
- 5 minof TV captions
- 9people retold it online
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- Nov 4, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Nov 4, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 5, 4 AM ETretold online by 9 people
- Nov 5, 10 AM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 Wire copy
7 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word
HuffPost, NBC News, NPR, New York Post, New York Times, The Epoch Times, The Guardian
💬 Quoted
- “Foreign Collusion”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)
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- AP (3 wordings): “Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2nd national security case” → “Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in prison”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Hong Kong court sentences activist Joshua Wong to 10 years on national security charge” → “Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong gets 10 years in jail on national security charge”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in national security case” → “Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in national security case”
📰 Every outlet's headline 15left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 5, 5 AM ET
Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Sentenced To 10 More Years In Prison
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in national security case
- AP🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2nd national security case
- CNN🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET
Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong handed another 10 years in jail
- NBC News🕒 Nov 5, 7 AM ET
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in 2nd national security case
- NPR🕒 Nov 5, 3 AM ET
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison
- New York Times🕒 Nov 5, 1 AM ET
Joshua Wong, Hong Kong Democracy Activist, Is Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
- BBC🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET
Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, jailed for 10 years
- Bloomberg🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET
Hong Kong Jails Joshua Wong for a Decade in Collusion Case
- Reuters🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET
Hong Kong court sentences activist Joshua Wong to 10 years on national security charge
- The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 5, 7 AM ET
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Joshua Wong Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
- The Washington Times🕒 Nov 5, 12 AM ET
Hong Kong activist sentenced in 2nd national security case
- Breitbart🕒 Nov 5, 10 AM ET
HK Pro-Democracy Activist Joshua Wong Sentenced to 10 More Years on ‘Foreign Collusion’ Charges
- New York Post🕒 Nov 5, 4 AM ET
Hong Kong activist sentenced to 10 more years in prison
- Newsmax🕒 Nov 4, 8 PM ET
Hong Kong Pro-democracy Activist Joshua Wong Faces Sentencing in 2nd National Security Case
📡 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
🧶 Retold online
- Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in prison for colluding with foreign powers. Nov 5: told by 9 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
Joshua WongHong KongNational Security LawHong Kong National Security CourtHong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.