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Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

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 42 85 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 6 Oct 00:09 UTC · Novelist and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86 6 Oct 06:26 UTC · Jeffrey Archer, bestselling novelist and former Conservative politician, dies at 86 6 Oct 12:08 UTC · Bestselling novelist and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86 6 Oct 18:07 UTC · Bestselling novelist and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86 7 Oct 06:32 UTC · Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 5 HEADLINES

  1. 6 Oct, 00:09 UTC

    Novelist and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

  2. 6 Oct, 06:26 UTC

    Jeffrey Archer, bestselling novelist and former Conservative politician, dies at 86

  3. 6 Oct, 12:08 UTC

    Bestselling novelist and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

  4. 6 Oct, 18:07 UTC

    Bestselling novelist and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

  5. 7 Oct, 06:32 UTC

    Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

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.