BND - Pope Leo XIV undergoes successful lung nodule surgery

🗞️ Story file #332

Pope Leo XIV undergoes successful lung nodule surgery

Oct 11, 7 AM ET to Oct 14, 3 AM ET

35outlets carried it
🫏15 · 9 · 11🐘left · center · right
2.8 dayson the front pages
34front pages at once, at its peak
151 minof TV captions
16radio newscasts
1 of 3parts 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 11, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: Axios
Oct 11, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 11, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 12, 10 AM ETpeak: on 34 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 11, 7 AM to Oct 14, 3 AM ET (peak 33), 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: 4 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CBS News, Chicago Tribune, NBC News, Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “concluded successfully” “successful” “successfully completed,” “early-stage” “in coming days” “nodule” “next few days”

✏️ 25 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (6 wordings): “Pope Leo to undergo surgery after nodule discovered on his lung, he says” → “Pope Leo's procedure to remove nodule was 'successfully completed,' says Vatican”
AP (4 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV says he will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a nodule on his lung” → “Pope Leo XIV arrives at Rome’s Gemelli hospital ahead of surgery to remove lung nodule”
Axios (2 wordings): “Pope Leo to have "nodule" removed from lung” → “Pope Leo's lung surgery successful, Vatican says”
BBC (3 wordings): “Pope Leo to have surgery after lump found on lung” → “Pope's surgery to remove lump on lung 'concluded successfully', Vatican says”
Breitbart (4 wordings): “Pope Leo to Undergo Surgery to Remove Nodule on His Lung” → “Pope Leo XIV Enters Rome Hospital Ahead of Abdominal Surgery”
CBS News (3 wordings): “Pope Leo to undergo surgery after nodular lesion found in lung, Vatican says” → “Pope Leo's lung nodule surgery completed successfully, Vatican says”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Pope Leo announces he will undergo surgery to remove lung nodule” → “Pope Leo announces he will undergo surgery to remove lung nodule”
Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to hospital for lung nodule surgery, Vatican says” → “Pope Leo XIV arrives at hospital ahead of surgery to remove lung nodule”
Fox News (7 wordings): “Pope Leo to undergo surgery after announcing unexpected health issue at Sunday blessing” → “Pope Leo surgery to remove lung nodule was successful, Vatican says”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV Will Undergo Surgery To Remove A Nodule On His Lung” → “Pope Leo Enters Hospital Ahead Of Surgery”
Just the News (3 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove nodule on lung” → “Vatican says procedure to remove nodule from Pope Leo XIV's lung was 'successful'”
NBC News (9 wordings): “BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung” → “Pope Leo in Rome hospital for operation to remove a lung nodule”
New York Post (6 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery to remove a lump on his lung” → “Vatican says Pope Leo’s lung nodule surgery was successfully completed”
News Nation (3 wordings): “Vatican spokesman says pope's lung surgery is planned for this week” → “Pope Leo XIV admitted to hospital for lung surgery”
Newsmax (11 wordings): “Pope to Undergo Lung Surgery to Remove Lesion” → “Vatican: Pope Leo's Surgery Successfully Completed”
Newsweek (3 wordings): “Latest Pope Leo To Undergo Surgery To Remove Lump on HIs Lung” → “Latest Pope Leo to Undergo Surgery to Remove Lump on His Lung”
PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “Pope Leo to undergo surgery to remove nodule on his lung” → “Pope Leo undergoes successful surgery to remove lung nodule, Vatican says”
Reuters (6 wordings): “Pope Leo says will undergo surgery for small growth on lung” → “Pope Leo to enter hospital on Tuesday for surgery on lung nodule”
Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “Health Update Pope Leo XIV to Undergo Surgery After Nodule Found in Lung” → “Pope Leo XIV to Undergo Surgery After Nodule Found in Lung”
The Daily Beast (2 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV Undergoes Lung Surgery” → “Vatican Releases Update on Pope Leo’s Lung Surgery”
The Guardian (3 wordings): “Pope Leo to have surgery to remove nodule on his lung” → “Pope Leo undergoes surgery to remove growth on lung”
The Hill (2 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung” → “Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery in coming days”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Pope Leo to undergo surgery to remove nodule on lung” → “Pope Leo recovering at the hospital after lung nodule surgery, Vatican says”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Pope Leo to undergo surgery this week” → “Pope Leo's lung surgery successful says Vatican”
Washington Examiner (3 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV to have ‘early-stage’ lung nodule surgically removed” → “Pope Leo XIV successfully undergoes operation to remove nodule from lung”