Early Bronze Age wreck found off Turkey may be world’s oldest
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 · 5 HEADLINES
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15 Oct, 00:20 UTC
Early Bronze Age shipwreck discovered off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast
- 15 Oct, 12:19 UTC
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15 Oct, 18:23 UTC
Ancient shipwreck discovered off Turkey may be world’s oldest
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16 Oct, 00:17 UTC
Early Bronze Age wreck off Turkey may be oldest yet discovered
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16 Oct, 06:19 UTC
Early Bronze Age wreck found off Turkey may be world’s oldest
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 ago: 4,200 (1 from 14 Oct 05:00) → 2,400 (1 from 14 Oct 05:00) → 4,000 (1 from 14 Oct 15:16) → 4,700 (1 from 14 Oct 15:16) → 4,500 (1 from 15 Oct 21:43)
Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.