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Lottery ticket sold at Illinois gas station wins $1bn Powerball jackpot
How this story is being covered
Extra Extra has grouped 5 reports on this story from 5 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 3 left-leaning, 1 center, and 1 right-leaning sources.
With a coverage-diversity score of 86 out of 100, this is one of the more evenly reported stories in our index right now — left, center, and right outlets are all giving it attention.
On reliability, 4 of the 5 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B) and 1 outlet fall into our mixed or lower-reliability tier (C or D). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
Coverage of this story has developed over roughly 9 hours, so the perspectives below capture how the framing shifted as the story matured.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: NBC News, The Guardian, MassLive, UPI, Fox Business.
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NBC NewsBAug 13, 4:53 AM
Single ticket bought in Illinois wins $1 billion Powerball jackpot
To the tens of thousands and likely more dreaming about a $1 billion Powerball win, the anticipation is over: Someone who bought a ticket in Illinois won it all.
The GuardianAAug 13, 1:54 PM
Lottery ticket sold at Illinois gas station wins $1bn Powerball jackpot
Prize was eighth largest in Powerball history and followed three months without a top prize winner A Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in western Illinois was the sole winner of the $1bn jackpot,
MassLiveBAug 13, 2:00 PM
Mass. Powerball player wins $2M prize, misses $1B jackpot by 1 number
Check your numbers! Someone in Massachusetts won $2 million during Wednesday night's Powerball drawing — here's where the ticket was sold.
Center(1)
Right(1)
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