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DEVELOPING · 2 OCT → 11 OCT 2026 · 10 EDITIONS · 21 OUTLETS
Middle East crude exports return to prewar levels as Iranian shipments halt
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 · 1 HEADLINE
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
- Red Sea · from 4 Oct 16:20, 4 outlets
- Saudi Arabia · from 4 Oct 20:03, 4 outlets
- Donald Trump · from 4 Oct 20:03, 3 outlets
- Arab Light · from 4 Oct 23:18, 3 outlets
- 19.5 million barrels day · from 4 Oct 16:20, 2 outlets
- Islamic Republic · from 4 Oct 16:20, 2 outlets
- Persian Gulf · from 4 Oct 20:03, 2 outlets
- $3 barrel · from 4 Oct 23:18, 2 outlets
Figures reported with different numbers
- barrels day: 16.5 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 19.5 million (2 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 17 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 1.8 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 1.5 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 6.3 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 23.3 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 3 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 22.4 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 2 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 3.8 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 5 million (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 17.5 million (1 from 4 Oct 20:03) → 19 million (1 from 4 Oct 20:03)
- barrels day: 500,000 (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 900,000 (1 from 4 Oct 16:20) → 700,000 (1 from 4 Oct 16:20)
Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.