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Sri Lankan court convicts 15 over 2019 Easter bombings

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 4 HEADLINES

2026-09-22
Sri Lanka court convicts 15 over deadly 2019 Easter bombings
2026-09-23
Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over deadly 2019 Easter Sunday bombings
2026-09-23
Sri Lanka court convicts 15 over 2019 Easter bombings
25 Sep, 00:49 UTC
Sri Lankan court convicts 15 over 2019 Easter bombings

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

years prison: 220 (2 from 23 Sep 00:43) → 260 (1 from 23 Sep 05:07) → 240 (1 from 23 Sep 05:07)
charges against: 23,270 (2 from 22 Sep 13:30) → 23,000 (1 from 22 Sep 16:31)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.