BND - Two container ships sink near Strait of Hormuz amid increased attacks

🗞️ Story file #463

Two container ships sink near Strait of Hormuz amid increased attacks

Oct 14, 10 AM ET to Oct 16, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

19outlets carried it
🫏7 · 5 · 6🐘left · center · right
2.2 dayson the front pages
15front pages at once, at its peak
24 sof TV captions
3radio newscasts

👣 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 14, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Times
Oct 14, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 14, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 15, 6 AM ETpeak: on 15 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 10 AM to Oct 16, 2 PM ET (peak 16), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

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💬 quoted: “Projectile” “Unknown Projectiles”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 iran ramps 🐘 sink near

✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Iran increases threat to Strait of Hormuz shipping, and other Middle East developments” → “Iran says a ship sank after striking a mine in Strait of Hormuz, and other Middle East developments”
Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Iran Escalates Attacks on Ships, Threatening Oil Export Recovery” → “Container Ship Sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Attacks Ramp Up”
CNBC (3 wordings): “Oil rises amid growing Mideast tensions between Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia” → “One Singapore ship was sunk, but here's why others are still transiting the Strait of Hormuz”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Ships around the Strait of Hormuz are suffering their worst attacks of the war so far, with 24 ships struck in the past two weeks — causing oil exports to plummet to less than half the pre-war flow.” → “Crude awakening Hormuz ships pummeled with worst attacks of the Iran War — as oil flows plummet”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Oil Prices Rise as Iran Steps Up Attacks and Houthi-Saudi Fighting Intensifies” → “Attacks on Ships in Strait of Hormuz Escalate Sharply”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “Sources: Ship Near Hormuz Hit by Projectile, Sinks” → “2 Container Ships Sink Near Hormuz”
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (2 wordings): “LIVE Attacks On Hormuz Shipping Hit Wartime High” → “3 Attacks On Hormuz Shipping Hit Wartime High”
Reuters (4 wordings): “Oil prices surge as Iran deploys new tactics to target tankers” → “Two ships sink near Hormuz after being hit by projectiles amid surge in attacks”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Container ship sinks near strait of Hormuz amid surge in Iranian attacks” → “Two container ships sink near strait of Hormuz amid surge in Iranian attacks”
The Independent (3 wordings): “Ship catches fire and sinks after attempting to pass through Strait of Hormuz – reports” → “Pictures reveal huge cargo containers floating in Strait of Hormuz after Iran sinks two ships in day of violence”