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Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sex offences

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 17 34 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 15 Oct 18:16 UTC · Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sex offences 16 Oct 00:12 UTC · Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sex offences 16 Oct 06:14 UTC · Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sex offences

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 15 Oct, 18:16 UTC

    Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sex offences

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • 13 counts indecent · 4 outlets
  • Jeffrey Donaldson · 4 outlets
  • Northern Ireland · 4 outlets
  • 15 years prison · 3 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • years prison: 15 (3 from 15 Oct 10:25) → 11 (2 from 15 Oct 10:25)
  • years old: 26 (2 from 15 Oct 10:25) → 25 (1 from 15 Oct 15:07)
  • years rape: 15 (2 from 15 Oct 13:45) → 11 (1 from 15 Oct 19:14)

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