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Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge

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 21 43 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 24 Oct 12:12 UTC · Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge 24 Oct 18:11 UTC · North Korea’s Kim makes brief visit to Chinese border city 25 Oct 00:12 UTC · Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge 25 Oct 06:12 UTC · Kim Jong Un makes day-long visit to Chinese border city via newly opened bridge 26 Oct 00:16 UTC · Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 5 HEADLINES

  1. 24 Oct, 12:12 UTC

    Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge

  2. 24 Oct, 18:11 UTC

    North Korea’s Kim makes brief visit to Chinese border city

  3. 25 Oct, 00:12 UTC

    Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge

  4. 25 Oct, 06:12 UTC

    Kim Jong Un makes day-long visit to Chinese border city via newly opened bridge

  5. 26 Oct, 00:16 UTC

    Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city via newly opened bridge

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Donald Trump · 5 outlets
  • Southeast Asia · 3 outlets
  • Hong Kong · 3 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Xi Jinping · from 14 Oct 02:28, 7 outlets
  • Korean War · from 24 Oct 07:07, 5 outlets
  • Wang Huning · from 24 Oct 07:29, 5 outlets
  • Kim Jong · from 14 Oct 02:28, 4 outlets
  • Korean Peninsula · from 13 Oct 16:12, 3 outlets
  • Yalu River · from 14 Oct 04:08, 3 outlets
  • 12 years its · from 24 Oct 07:07, 3 outlets
  • Youn Kun · from 24 Oct 09:51, 3 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

  • gold medals: 39 (2 from 4 Oct 02:58) → 169 (2 from 4 Oct 02:58) → 83 (2 from 4 Oct 02:58) → 50 (1 from 4 Oct 02:58) → 45 (2 from 4 Oct 21:00) → 21 (2 from 4 Oct 21:00) → 10 (1 from 4 Oct 21:00)
  • year earlier: 32% (1 from 11 Oct 02:33) → 22% (1 from 18 Oct 04:18) → 21.1% (1 from 22 Oct 02:12) → 47.7% (1 from 22 Oct 02:12)
  • foreign visitors: 17.11 million (1 from 22 Oct 02:12) → 23 million (1 from 27 Oct 08:06) → 30 million (1 from 28 Oct 05:35)

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