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Explosion and fire reported at Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids

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 8 16 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct 25 Oct 06:15 UTC · Explosion and fire reported at Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 25 Oct, 06:15 UTC

    Explosion and fire reported at Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids

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.