Russian ambassador to the US dies at age 66

🗞️ Story file #1748

Russian ambassador to the US dies at age 66

Nov 11, 1 PM ET to Nov 11, 6 PM ET

22outlets carried it
🫏8 · 3 · 11🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
22front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast

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Nov 11, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Nov 11, 4 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 11, 6 PM ETpeak: on 22 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean, the side that had it first at the bottom:leftleans leftcenterleans rightright. First: ABC News, Wed 12:00 PM ET.

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.

💬 Quoted

“suddenly”8
“Deep State”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Drudge Report · Political Wire

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)

NBC News (2 wordings): “Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. dies suddenly at age 66” → “Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. dies at age 66”
News Nation (2 wordings): “Russian ambassador to US dies at 66” → “Russia’s ambassador to the United States dies 'suddenly' at 66”
Red State (2 wordings): “BREAKING Russian Ambassador to the US Suddenly Dies” → “Russian Ambassador to the US Suddenly Dies”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Russia’s ambassador to the United States dies, aged 66” → “Russia’s ambassador to the United States dies aged 66”

📰 Every outlet's headline 22left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Russia’s Ambassador To U.S. Dies ‘Suddenly,’ Russian Foreign Ministry Says
The Guardian🕒 Nov 11, 1 PM ET Russia’s ambassador to the United States dies, aged 66
ABC News🕒 Nov 11, 12 PM ET Alexander Darchiev, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, dead at 66
CNN🕒 Nov 11, 1 PM ET Russian ambassador to US dies suddenly, foreign ministry says
Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. dies, the country’s Foreign Ministry says
NBC News🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. dies suddenly at age 66
New York Times🕒 Nov 11, 5 PM ET Alexander Darchiev, Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S., Dies at 66
The Independent🕒 Nov 11, 1 PM ET Russian ambassador to US Alexander Darchiev dies 'suddenly' at 66
Forbes🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Russia's Ambassador To The US Dead At 66, Reports Say
News Nation🕒 Nov 11, 12 PM ET Russian ambassador to US dies at 66
Newsweek🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Who Was Alexander Darchiev? Russia’s Ambassador to US Dies Suddenly at 66
The Washington Times🕒 Nov 11, 6 PM ET Russian ambassador to the U.S. dies 'suddenly' at 66
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Russian ambassador to US ‘suddenly’ dead at 66
IJR🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Russia’s US Ambassador Darchiev Dies at 66
New York Post🕒 Nov 11, 3 PM ET Russian ambassador to the US ‘suddenly’ dies at 66
Newsmax🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET Moscow's Ambassador to the US Dies at Age 66, the Russian Foreign Ministry Says
Red State🕒 Nov 11, 2 PM ET BREAKING Russian Ambassador to the US Suddenly Dies
The Daily Caller🕒 Nov 11, 1 PM ET Russian Ambassador To US Dies At Age 66
The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 11, 4 PM ET Russian Ambassador To U.S., A Fierce Critic Of The West, Dies Suddenly
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 11, 4 PM ET Russian Ambassador to US Alexander Darchiev Dies at 66: Expert on America’s Left Said the ‘Deep State’ Was Pushing Trump to Pressure Moscow
The Western Journal🕒 Nov 11, 4 PM ET Russia's Ambassador to the US Dies 'Suddenly' Per Country's Foreign Ministry
Townhall🕒 Nov 11, 3 PM ET Top Russian Diplomat to the US 'Suddenly' Dies

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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📺🤷 No TV captions matched to it.

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

🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #3

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Alexander DarchievRussia

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Russian ambassador to the US dies at age 66

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