Cruise ship pianist rescued after nine hours at sea

🗞️ Story file #1616

Cruise ship pianist rescued after nine hours at sea

Nov 9, 4 AM ET to Nov 9, 10 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 3🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
20 sof TV captions
1radio newscast

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Nov 9, 4 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Sun
Nov 9, 5 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Nov 9, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Nov 9, 10 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 9, 4 AM to Nov 9, 10 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

The Sun (2 wordings): “CAST AWAY Cruise ship pianist found treading water NINE HOURS after plunging overboard” → “Cruise ship pianist found treading water nine hours after plunging overboard...”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Cruise ship pianist saved after treading water for 9 hours in the Pacific” → “Fishermen pull cruise ship pianist from water 20 miles off California coast”

📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating