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Seven sailors missing after two tankers catch fire in Romanian Black Sea waters

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

0 13 26 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 15 Oct 12:23 UTC · Seven missing after two tankers catch fire in Romanian Black Sea waters 16 Oct 00:14 UTC · Seven sailors missing after two tankers catch fire in Romanian Black Sea waters

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

  1. 15 Oct, 12:23 UTC

    Seven missing after two tankers catch fire in Romanian Black Sea waters

  2. 16 Oct, 00:14 UTC

    Seven sailors missing after two tankers catch fire in Romanian Black Sea waters

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

  • sailors missing: 8 (2 from 15 Oct 08:30) → 7 (2 from 15 Oct 09:50)

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