Saudi Arabia postpones major investment conference to 2027

🗞️ Story file #652

Saudi Arabia postpones major investment conference to 2027

Oct 19, 1 PM ET to Oct 21, 7 AM ET

14outlets carried it
🫏6 · 4 · 4🐘left · center · right
1.8 dayson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast
12 of 14parts 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 19, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Times
Oct 19, 11 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
Oct 20, 7 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 1 PM to Oct 21, 7 AM ET (peak 13), 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 Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “Davos in the Desert” 3 “Davos In The Desert” 2 “Davos in the desert”

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

CNBC (2 wordings): “Saudi Arabia postpones big investor conference to 2027 as Houthis escalate attacks on kingdom” → “Saudi Arabia postpones investor conference to 2027 as Houthis escalate attacks”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “REPORTS: Saudi Arabia Axes 'Davos In The Desert' Amid Attacks...” → “Saudi Arabia To Axe In-Person ‘Davos in the Desert’ After Houthi Attacks”
New York Post (3 wordings): “Taking precaution Saudi Arabia scraps in-person investor summit as Houthi missile attacks rattle kingdom” → “Saudi Arabia postpones investor summit as Houthi missile attacks rattle kingdom”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Saudi Arabia postpones its 'Davos in the Desert' conference after attacks” → “Saudi Arabia postpones its 'Davos in the Desert' conference after attacks - Reuters”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Saudi Arabia postpones ‘Davos in the Desert’ investment conference over Houthi attacks” → “Saudi Arabia postpones ‘Davos in the Desert’ conference”

Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating