🗞️ Story file #1445
Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal national team
Nov 5, 7 AM ET to Nov 5, 10 AM ET
- 13outlets carried it
- 🫏7 · 4 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 3 hourson the front pages
- 13front pages at once, at its peak
- 6 minof TV captions
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The Hill 
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- Nov 5, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Nov 5, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 5, 9 AM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 5 times in 10 (41 stories)
📡 Wire copy
2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word
Forbes, New York Post
📌 Linked by aggregators
2 Drudge Report · 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)
- BBC (2 wordings): “Ronaldo retires from Portugal duty” → “A bitter end for Ronaldo - the icon who transformed Portugal”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from international soccer” → “Last dance Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from international soccer”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal national team” → “Portugal's Ronaldo announces international retirement”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Cristiano Ronaldo calls time on international career after 234 caps and 146 goals” → “Cristiano Ronaldo calls time on Portugal career after 234 caps and 146 goals”
📰 Every outlet's headline 13left to right by AllSides rating
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 5, 7 AM ET
Cristiano Ronaldo calls time on international career after 234 caps and 146 goals
- AP🕒 Nov 5, 8 AM ET
Cristiano Ronaldo announces his international retirement from Portugal
- CBS News🕒 Nov 5, 8 AM ET
Ronaldo retires from Portugal national team
- CNN🕒 Nov 5, 6 AM ET
Breaking News Cristiano Ronaldo retires from international soccer
- The Independent🕒 Nov 5, 9 AM ET
Ronaldo brings his legendary international soccer career to an end
- The Washington Post🕒 Nov 5, 6 AM ET
Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international soccer
- USA Today🕒 Nov 5, 7 AM ET
Ronaldo announces retirement from Portuguese national team
- BBC🕒 Nov 5, 6 AM ET
Ronaldo retires from Portugal duty
- Forbes🕒 Nov 5, 8 AM ET
Billionaire Soccer Legend Cristiano Ronaldo Announces Retirement From Portugal National Team
- Reuters🕒 Nov 5, 7 AM ET
Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal national team
- The Hill🕒 Nov 5, 9 AM ET
Cristiano Ronaldo retires from Portugal national team
- IJR🕒 Nov 5, 7 AM ET
Ronaldo Plans Portugal Retirement After November Break
- New York Post🕒 Nov 5, 6 AM ET
Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from international soccer
📡 Broadcast
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📺 On TV
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📻 On the radio
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📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
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🔎 Checking
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🧵 Persistence
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🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.