BND - Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti coast, 139 dead

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Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti coast, 139 dead

Oct 11, 9 AM ET to Oct 13, 6 AM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏5 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
1.9 dayson the front pages
11front pages at once, at its peak
32 minof TV captions

👣 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, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 11, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 12, 7 AM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 11, 9 AM to Oct 13, 6 AM ET (peak 11), 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 (NBC News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 139 migrants

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

BBC (2 wordings): “Children among 109 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says” → “Children among 139 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says”
Reuters (2 wordings): “109 migrants, including 15 children dead after boat from Djibouti to Yemen capsizes, UN agency says” → “At least 139 migrants dead, including some children, after boat from Djibouti to Yemen capsizes, UN agency says”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian At least 109 dead including children after boat capsizes off Djibouti Oct 11, 8 AM ET
AP 139 migrants, including children, die after boat capsizes off Djibouti Oct 11, 11 AM ET
CBS News 139 people dead, including 15 children, after migrant boat capsizes Oct 12, 7 AM ET
NBC News At least 139 migrants, including children, die after boat capsizes off Djibouti Oct 11, 11 AM ET
PBS NewsHour At least 139 migrants dead, dozens missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti coast Oct 11, 3 PM ET
BBC Children among 109 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says Oct 11, 9 AM ET
Newsweek 15 Children Among 139 Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks off Djibouti Oct 11, 12 PM ET
Reuters 109 migrants, including 15 children dead after boat from Djibouti to Yemen capsizes, UN agency says Oct 11, 7 AM ET
The Sun SHIP TRAGEDY At least 109 dead including 15 children after migrant boat capsizes Oct 11, 9 AM ET
Breitbart Over 130 Migrants Killed as Boat from Djibouti to Yemen Capsizes Oct 12, 6 PM ET
IJR Djibouti Boat Capsize Kills 109, Leaves 116 Missing Oct 11, 9 AM ET
Newsmax 109 Migrants, Including 15 Children, Die after Boat Capsizes off Djibouti Oct 11, 8 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News20 min

CNN11 min

UN: 139 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti BBC News, 17 min
AT LEAST 139 MIGRANTS DEAD AFTER BOAT BOUND FOR YEMEN CAPSIZES CNN, 11 min
139 migrants die in Djibouti boat disaster BBC News, 2 min
139 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti BBC News, 39 s
UN: 109 dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti BBC News, 27 s
At Least 139 Killed In Boat Disaster Off Djibouti, Death Toll Expected To Rise CNN, 25 s
MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZES EN ROUTE TO YEMEN CNN, 13 s

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: Djibouti Yemen Children Migrants

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.

Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti coast, 139 dead

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