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ಹುಡುಕು Huduku · Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Reading the news: a worksheet

One story, as each outlet headlined it. Read the headlines, then work through the questions.

Nobel Prize 2026: Medicine award goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel

5 reports from 5 outlets over 8 hours. Those outlets have 4 owners.

  • India Today and Business Today have the same owner: India Today Group.
  • India Today and Business Today used nearly the same words. Headlines this close usually come from one news agency’s copy.

How each outlet put it

Highlighted: words only this outlet used

Most outlets used: Nobel, Prize, Medicine, Karl, Deisseroth, Peter

  1. India Today ≈ same wording
    Nobel Prize 2026: Medicine award goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel
  2. Deccan Herald
    Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel win 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine
  3. Business Today ≈ same wording
    Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics
  4. Times of India
    Nobel Prize Winners 2026: Meet Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, winners of Medicine award

    Words only this outlet used: Winners, Meet, winners.

  5. The Hindu YouTube Video
    Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel win for work on optogenetics

    Words only this outlet used: work.

Questions

  1. Which words do most headlines share? Which words does only one outlet use, and what do they stress?

  2. Who reported it first, and how long did the others take? Does “first seen by Huduku” mean they broke the story?

  3. How many different owners carried it? Do any outlets share an owner, or nearly the same words?

  4. Which outlets you know did not carry it? What might explain that?

  5. What is the original source (a judgment, notice, speech or set of figures)? Find it. Does any headline say more than the source does?

  6. If you shared one of these headlines, which would it be, and why?

Trace it to the source?

Stories like this usually start from a document. These are where such documents are published; none is matched to this story.

Each headline links to the outlet’s own report. Huduku shows headlines only. https://huduku.org/story/1945