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NHL star Alex Ovechkin appears in campaign ad for pro-Putin United Russia party

8 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 70 hours 3 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · On NewsMarkets

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Publications over time

03:53 UTC01:56 UTC8 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstThe GuardianNHL star Alex Ovechkin appears in campaign ad for pro-Putin United Russia party by Robert Mackey, Tom Lutz
2+10 hours 52 minutesDeutsche WelleOvechkin still backing Putin party in parliamentary vote
3+12 hours 43 minutesThe HillNHL star Ovechkin appears in campaign video for Putin’s party by Mira Bhakta
4+14 hours 3 minutesBleacher ReportCapitals Say Alex Ovechkin Was Asked to Film United Russia Ad While Home This Summer by Associated Press
5+14 hours 34 minutesESPNCapitals say Ovechkin was asked to appear in Putin political ad
6+14 hours 46 minutesWashington Post (limited free articles)NHL star Alexander Ovechkin campaigns for pro-Putin party in new ad by Mary Ilyushina
7+44 hours 15 minutesAl JazeeraNHL superstar Ovechkin ‘was asked’ to film Putin ad, team says
8+70 hours 3 minutesThe Kyiv Independent'I'm Russian, and I support my country,' Ovechkin says after appearing in campaign ad for Putin's party by Volodymyr Ivanyshyn

Who covered it, by audience

5 of 8 publications on this story have an audience score. None of the rated publications whose audience leans Republican covered it, while 4 on the other side did.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (4)Mixed audience (1)Audience leans Republican (0)
None

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.