BND - Drone attack sinks ship in Black Sea

🗞️ Story file #163

Drone attack sinks ship in Black Sea

Oct 6, 5 PM ET to Oct 8, 2 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏1 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
1.4 dayson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
1 of 2parts of a saga

👣 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, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
Oct 6, 8 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 7, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 5 PM to Oct 8, 2 AM ET (peak 8), 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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “massive strike” “Russia sinks vessel” “blatant violation of international law”

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

AP (3 wordings): “Bulgarian PM says drone attack on 2 commercial vessels is 'blatant violation of international law'” → “Bulgaria's leader says drone attack hits 2 commercial vessels, and Ukraine's president blames Russia - AP News”
Red State (2 wordings): “Commercial Ships Struck by Drones Off Bulgaria, One Sinks” → “Russia Commercial Ships Struck by Drones Off Bulgaria, One Sinks Ward Clark”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating