China's economy grows 4.5% in third quarter

🗞️ Story file #624

China's economy grows 4.5% in third quarter

Oct 19, 1 AM ET to Oct 20, 3 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏4 · 5 · 1🐘left · center · right
1.6 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
9 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 19, 1 AM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
Oct 19, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 19, 7 AM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 1 AM to Oct 20, 3 PM ET (peak 10), 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: “a drag on world growth”

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “China’s economy grew 4.5% in the previous quarter, better than forecasts” → “China’s economy accelerated in the July-September quarter on robust exports”
BBC (2 wordings): “China's growth accelerates as AI export boom outweighs domestic weakness” → “China's growth accelerates as AI boom helps boost exports”
CNBC (2 wordings): “China's third-quarter economic growth quickens to 4.5% as exports surge, beating estimates” → “China's third-quarter economic growth quickens to 4.5%, beating estimates”
Financial Times (3 wordings): “China’s economy expands 4.5% in third quarter” → “China’s economy picks up pace with 4.5% growth”
New York Times (2 wordings): “China’s Export Boom Fuels Growth Despite Slump at Home” → “Strong Exports Stabilize China’s Economic Growth in Official Statistics”
Reuters (2 wordings): “China's economy picks up pace in Q3 as exports power uneven recovery” → “China's economic growth picks up as exports boom, consumers balk”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating