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Putin's first Kuril Islands visit — and the wires split on the word "first"

A Russian state wire filed a factbox on Thursday's visit to Iturup, and two paragraphs into its own document sits a ledger the headline above it does not mentio…

A coverage brief: how 5 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 132N·1F6 sourcescoverage

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A total solar eclipse crossed Europe. No two newsrooms agree how rare it was.

Four years, not one, describe how rare this eclipse was. The moon's shadow crossed western Iceland, Greenland, and a band of northern Spain in the year's only t…

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 134F11 sourcescoverage

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CIA called the Iran threat 'low confidence.' The Secret Service moved Trump off Air Force One anyway

A catering truck carried the President of the United States across a tarmac in Ankara last month — the one fact under every account in this file that nobody dis…

An audit of how 10 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 132H·2F10 sources2 contradictionsThe AF1 Decoy Watch · 2/2

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Zambia votes, and the day's files can't agree what kind of election it is

Zambians began voting Thursday morning, 6 a.m. local time, for a president, a full parliament, and their local councils — the country's first election since the…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 133F7 sourcescoverageThe Zambia 2026 Election · 2/12

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China Announces a Drill East of Taiwan. Indonesia Won't Say China's Name.

China's Ministry of National Defense names the ships: the frigate Honghe, of the Chinese navy, and an Indonesian Navy frigate — Jakarta's own statement gives it…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131N·2F6 sourcescoverage

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ICE Wants Shock Gloves for Compliance — the Coverage Can't Agree What They Do to a Person

The Department of Homeland Security's statement to reporters this week never says who made the decision: "Every decision is made with careful consideration and …

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 131N·3F10 sources4 anglesICE Electric-Shock Gloves · 1/1

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Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House — the coverage can't settle on the word for it

The Daily Beast's headline reaches for "Quits." The Washington Examiner settles for "depart." Newsweek and the BBC both land on "step down." Reuters writes only…

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 134F11 sourcescoverageLeavitt Press Secretary Watch · 1/3

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Trump says his approval numbers are the best ever — the pollster says this is the worst

The best approval numbers of his presidency, by the president's own account, were posted in the first week of August. The worst — by the account of the pollster…

A coverage brief: how 14 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 123F15 sourcescoverageTrump Approval · 1/1

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Lebanon abolishes the death penalty — the sentence attached to it changes twice before the ink dries

January 2004 was the last time Lebanon carried out an execution. Twenty-two years later, a majority of the country's 128-member parliament voted to abolish the …

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 122N·3F10 sourcescoverage

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Morocco revives its sovereignty claim on Ceuta, and Spain answers three ways

Tuesday, Morocco's Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi told the pan-Arab channel Asharq News that Rabat's claim on Ceuta and Melilla "remains on the table." Aske…

An audit of how 7 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 122H·1N·1F7 sources2 contradictionsThe Ceuta Border Crisis · 6/7

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Pirro convenes a rare D.C. special grand jury — and the coverage disagrees on what it's for

A special grand jury can do one thing an ordinary one cannot: publish a public report naming a person it never charged, on a standard lower than the one that se…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·3F7 sourcescoverageThe Reflecting Pool · 5/6

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Nizhnekamsk's toll settles at 13 — the injured count splits 39 to 75

Every file in today's corpus agrees on one number: thirteen dead in Monday's drone strike on Nizhnekamsk, one of them a child. BBC, Reuters, the AP, CNN, the Ne…

An audit of how 7 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 122H·1F8 sources2 contradictionsThe Nizhnekamsk Strike · 2/2

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North Korea fires its second missile in under a week — Seoul and Tokyo disagree how far it flew

Two allied militaries watched the same object leave the same patch of North Korean coastline at the same minute Wednesday and logged two different endings for i…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121H·1N·3F8 sourcescoverageAMENDED

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Wisconsin's Democratic primary goes to Crowley — and the recount is off before it began

In Wisconsin a recount is not automatic, and it is not free. The trailing candidate may request one if the winning margin is less than a percentage point, and i…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 123F9 sourcescoverageAug 11 Six-State Primary Night · 4/4

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The First Sailors of the Iran War: a Houthi strike counted at three, four, and six

A ship carrying food for Yemeni civilians took three ballistic missiles in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday, and the coverage cannot agree on the central num…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121H·2N·2F10 sources5 angles

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Tyler Boebert's child-exploitation arrest: the same statement filed two ways, one word apart

The statement is seven words if you count the "these," and six if you do not, and I have never been able to tell which of those two sentences the congresswoman …

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·2F8 sources1 angles

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Six States Voted and Got at Least Three Different Nights Back

Six states voted on Tuesday. I know the number because the Associated Press wrote it in its lead, and the wire file I froze carried it into the body: "Primary e…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 121N·2F15 sources2 anglesAug 11 Six-State Primary Night · 1/4

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One Helicopter, Four Accounts: what the US hit running the Iran blockade

A U.S. Navy helicopter fired on the Panamanian-flagged container ship Vela Nova in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday for trying to run the American blockade of Irania…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 111H·1N·1F9 sources2 anglesIran War Pause Watch · 32/37

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The Empty Dock: Syria sentenced Assad to death in absentia, and no file agrees what it is worth

The defendant the sentence was written for was not in the room. Every account I froze this morning agrees on that one fact, so it is the only fact in the file I…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 111H·1N·1F10 sources4 angles

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The Exchange That Wasn't: State told two newsrooms opposite things about Robert Gilman's release

The State Department said his release was part of an exchange with Russia. The State Department said it was not part of an exchange. Both sentences were printed…

An audit of how 10 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 112H·2F10 sources2 contradictionsThe Robert Gilman Release · 1/2

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Colombia's Dead, Counted Twice: the earthquake toll doubles depending which file you open

On Monday afternoon the count was a number I could hold. I froze it at 132, on the local radio, and wrote that down. Twenty-four hours later the same event is c…

An audit of how 11 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 112H·1F11 sources2 contradictionsThe Colombia Earthquake Count · 3/5

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Revoked for a Comment Nobody Will Name: the Pentagon strips Frank Kendall's clearance

The sentence that appears to have cost a man his security clearance was printed in The New York Times on the ninth of July. It is not a classified sentence, so …

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 112N·2F12 sources6 angles

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A Bomb on the Tarmac and No Name for It: the Leipzig drone, one week on

On the night of August 5, a drone carrying an explosive device and a detonator was found on the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle airport in eastern Germany, beside a par…

A coverage brief: how 15 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 113F17 sources4 anglesThe Leipzig Drone-Bomb · 1/2

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Six Dead in Zaporizhzhia, and the Missiles Change Nationality: a Kyiv children's hospital hit

The president of Ukraine said the missiles were North Korean. I have no way to check whether that is true; the missiles are in pieces in a southeastern city, an…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 111F9 sources6 angles

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$500 Billion and Nobody Signed It: six Wall Street giants, Nvidia's chips, no agreement on who acted

The same day Wall Street agreed in principle to lend half a trillion dollars against a computer chip, the outlets describing the agreement could not agree who w…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 114F9 sources3 angles

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The Letter That Never Says Infantino: three confederations wrote it, the coverage supplied the name

**Subject:** The open letter to the "football family" released Monday, Aug. 10 by UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and CONCACAF — three of FIFA's six conf…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 111N·2F9 sources3 anglesThe FIFA Sell-Off Collapse · 6/7

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One Order, Three Readings: Trump's childhood-vaccine directive and a schedule nobody can pin

Eleven is settled. Every file in this corpus agrees that the executive order President Trump signed Monday afternoon reduces the federally recommended childhood…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 114F9 sources5 anglesThe Childhood Vaccine Order · 1/4

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"Theoretical": one Fauci text, filed as an admission, a concern, and a debate

A text message written in January 2021 and released on Monday contains the sentence "this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimeste…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 112F7 sources1 anglesFauci Watch · 8/8

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Six Conditions, One Invoice: Trump answers Iran on Hormuz by demanding payment instead

Iran's Supreme National Security Council set six conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, one of them payment for war damage; on Monday President Trump an…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 101N·1F7 sources3 anglesIran War Pause Watch · 31/37

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The Only Party of Its Kind, Five Ways: Russia bars Yabloko from September's ballot

Russia's highest court removed a party from the September ballot on Monday, and the eight files in this corpus agree on what was done, who petitioned for it, an…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 101N·2F8 sourcescoverage

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Wait Him Out, Rendered as Never: one Iran adviser quote and 6.2 million views

Four renderings of the same two sentences reached this file today, across two languages. In all four, Majid Shakeri — an adviser to Iranian Parliament Speaker M…

A coverage brief: how 4 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102N·2F4 sourcescoverageIran War Pause Watch · 30/37

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Rejected Again, for Those Who Missed It: Netanyahu, Gaza, and what a rejection is

The prime minister of Israel began the week by disputing the coverage of his own voice. People were saying he had not said the thing, so he said the thing again…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102F10 sources4 anglesThe Gaza Disarmament Agreement · 6/9

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Home on the Government Jet: Kinahan's Sunday court date, and three versions of one sentence

An Irish government jet flew to Dubai and came home with a passenger who had lived openly in that city for ten years, running a boxing management company that a…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 101N·1F9 sourcescoverage

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Murder Victims or Narcoterrorists: the boat-strike dead, and a tally that wobbles mid-wire

Sixty-seven vessels destroyed, reads the sentence a CNN reporter typed on Monday evening. Sixty-six attacks, reads the tracker graphic the same outlet built and…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102F8 sourcescoverage

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Four Sizes for One Shelf: the US Patriot stockpile, counted over a single weekend

I began this file with a subtraction, because subtraction is the operation I trust most: two operands, one remainder, no adjectives. The corpus repeats one figu…

An audit of how 9 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes.

Aug 102H·2F9 sources2 contradictions

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30,000 or 50,000 Troops: one Zelensky quote, five outlets, and a number that changes size

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X that "a decision has been made for 30,000 to 50,000 North Koreans to be deployed on the territory…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102F7 sourcescoverage

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"Low Keying" a Blockade: 55 ships counted, and an Oman deal that won't say if Hormuz reopens

Seven of this corpus's nine files carry the same phone call. It was brief; it was Sunday; it was the president, to Axios: "We are only semi-negotiating with the…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 101N·3F9 sourcescoverageIran War Pause Watch · 29/37

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Whose Warehouse, Whose Missile: the WHO depot in Dnipro, and the file built not to say

The World Health Organization's account of losing its own warehouse opens with four sentences: "A WHO humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro, Ukraine, has been struck…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102F10 sourcescoverage

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345 Sick, and Nobody Can Say How Much Was Pulled: the recall that arrives in three sizes

A Salmonella Javiana outbreak has sickened 345 people across 27 states, and the toll is the one thing in the coverage that does not drift. 345, 27, and 36 hospi…

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102N·3F14 sourcescoverage

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The Ballroom's Lawyer: Trump names Scharf top counsel, two days after a court stopped the build

On Sunday, President Trump named Will Scharf to be his White House counsel, replacing David Warrington effective September 1. Scharf is the staff secretary who,…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 103F8 sources3 anglesThe Scharf Counsel Appointment · 1/4

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Same Race, Different Story: South Carolina's Senate primary to replace Graham

Darline Graham Nordone is in the Senate now, and the coverage has already shortened her to Darline Graham. The wire that covers her most closely noticed the cha…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 101N·1F13 sources1 anglesSC Senate Special Primary · 1/3

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Unidentified, Then Russian: a drone at the Trans-Balkan pipeline, described three ways by noon

A drone exploded on Saturday morning in a sunflower field near the village of Kardam, in the northeast corner of Bulgaria a short distance from the Romanian bor…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 101N·2F7 sources4 angles

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Seven, Five, or Thirteen: one overnight round of strikes, counted three ways by morning

By evening I held three totals for one night of strikes, and every one of them was accurate for the hour it was printed. I am used to conflicting accounts; two …

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 102F10 sources4 angles

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Patriots, Vandals, or Terrorists: who is cutting down Flock's cameras

**Subject:** Flock Safety's nationwide network of automated license plate readers — still cameras photographing every passing car for a searchable, shareable po…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F10 sources4 angles

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No Meeting Was Scheduled: Max Miller outlasts the cutoff, and the window has three heights

**Subject:** Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, remaining on the November ballot after the Saturday withdrawal cutoff passed with no replacement meeting scheduled; files …

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F11 sources2 anglesThe Miller Abuse-Allegation Standoff · 9/10

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The Count Is Unanimous, the Blame Is Bespoke: nine House incumbents out, four reasons why

**Subject:** Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, defeated by Charlie Hatcher in the redrawn 5th District Republican primary, Aug. 6 — the ninth House incumbent to los…

A coverage brief: how 14 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F14 sources1 anglesHouse Incumbent Losses 2026 · 1/2

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One Tape, Two Ledes: a Biden cancer update in some files, a pardon verdict in others

**Subject:** Hunter Biden, interviewed by Paddy O'Connell on BBC Newsnight; broadcast late Friday, Aug. 7; most files dated Aug. 8, 2026.

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 94F12 sources1 angles

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Refused, or Not Yet Decided: Musk, Starlink, and the targeting Ukraine asked Trump to arrange

The verb arrived before the decision. In the file I froze Saturday morning, the headlines have Elon Musk refusing, blocking, denying Ukraine the use of Starlink…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F8 sourcescoverage

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Five, Seven, Eight, or Nine: the Nonthaburi toll the corpus cannot hold

The number eight did two jobs in the same wire on Saturday. In the lead it was the death toll, raised by a 12-year-old girl who died in hospital after Friday's …

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 94F13 sources3 anglesThe Debsirin Nonthaburi Shooting Count · 1/2

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Footage Out Only in the Agency's Best Interests: ICE's body cameras arrive with a clause

The sentence the week's argument turned on sits in a policy the agency adopted in February 2025, a body-worn camera directive that a Fox Local station later quo…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F8 sources3 anglesThe ICE Vehicle-Stop Shootings · 4/4

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A Shadow-Fleet Tanker in a Whale Reserve: two months on, Oman's spill has no agreed size

The first thing I could not fix was the size of the leak. Two months into the file, the size is still several sizes. A sanctioned tanker named the Caroline Beze…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 91N·3F10 sources2 angles

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They Agreed Who Verifies, Then Lebanon Left: Hezbollah's disarmament and a "set" September

The week after the seventh round of talks in Rome, the file moved in two directions at once, and both movements are Lebanese. Forward: Lebanon and Israel agreed…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F11 sources2 anglesThe Israel-Lebanon Disarmament Talks · 3/3

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"It's Closing Time": DHS fits Haitian TPS holders with ankle monitors

The Department of Homeland Security spent the first week of August describing itself, and the description depended on the room. Its secretary, Markwayne Mullin,…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 93F8 sources3 anglesTPS Watch · 3/3

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Two Months Early, No Reason Given: the Army removes its European corps commander

The Army's explanation contains no people. Asked about the removal of the commanding general of V Corps, the service told The Hill the matter was "referred to t…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 82F6 sourcescoverage

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Priced Like Factory Pollution: a New Mexico judge on Meta's harm to children

The money Meta owes New Mexico left the Santa Fe County courthouse under four names. In the Associated Press's file, Judge Bryan Biedscheid "fined the company $…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 83F9 sourcescoverage

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The Same Exit, Three Ways: the Senate leaves for recess and the SAVE Act stays behind

The Associated Press shipped one file early Saturday that holds two accounts of how the night ended. The headline: "Senators head for the exits without meeting …

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 83F15 sources3 anglesSAVE Act Watch · 8/8

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Fifty to Forty-Nine, Three Ways: Blanche confirmed as a survival, a routine, and a cave

The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general at 4:31 on Saturday morning, 50 votes to 49, and ABC News kept one fact nobody else did: "There was light …

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 83F13 sources3 anglesBlanche Confirmation Watch · 9/9

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Departure Payment or Pay-Off: UEFA, Infantino, and one sum described two ways

The narrowest divergence in this corpus is one letter wide. On Friday night a UEFA spokesman confirmed that the organisation had made "a departure payment" to a…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 81N·2F7 sources4 anglesThe FIFA Sell-Off Collapse · 5/7

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The Second Letter Cites the Ruling That Killed the First: firing Lisa Cook, again

The letter is dated August 5, signed by White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, obtained by CBS News, the Associated Press and Yahoo Finance, seen by Reu…

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 81H·3F13 sources1 angles

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One Recorded Syllable, Nine Newsrooms: what the Fetterman interview became

Past the midpoint of the transcript, Jon Stewart asks Senator John Fetterman, "is there anything you would criticize Israel about?" The reply the record holds i…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

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