BND - Golden State Valkyries defeat Atlanta Dream in WNBA Finals opener

🗞️ Story file #601

Golden State Valkyries defeat Atlanta Dream in WNBA Finals opener

Oct 17, 9 PM ET to Oct 18, 5 PM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏2 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
20 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
3radio newscasts
2 of 4parts 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 17, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Chicago Tribune
Oct 17, 9 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 18, 11 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 17, 9 PM to Oct 18, 5 PM ET (peak 7), 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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Star-Spangled Banner”

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

AP (2 wordings): “Gabby Williams scores 26 points, sends Valkyries to 68-64 Game 1 win in defensive WNBA Finals opener” → “A first-time WNBA champion awaits as the Valkyries and Dream open the Finals”
Fox News (3 wordings): “Both WNBA Finals squads leave court for 'Star-Spangled Banner' then rush back” → “Valkyries stifle Angel Reese and Dream as Gabby Williams shines in Finals opener”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating