The disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic
Gone quiet · last story Mar 18, 2025
What this arc covers
The March 2025 disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student, during spring break in the Dominican Republic: the search, the belief that she drowned, her parents' request that she be declared dead, and the return of the last person to see her.
Earliest story we hold Mar 9, 2025 · 7 stories · 36 independent sources (counted once each) · 9 days
Where it standsnewest first · each bar runs left to right by leaning
Mar 18– 202025American last to see missing Pitt student alive in Dominican Republic lands in U.S.14 articles · 8 independent sources0 left, 2 center, 2 right
Mar 17– 182025Parents of missing Pitt student Sudiksha Konanki ask Dominican Republic police to declare her dead36 articles · 18 independent sources1 left, 11 center, 1 right
Mar 102025Land, air and sea search underway for college student from US missing in Dominican Republic8 articles · 5 independent sources0 left, 3 center, 0 right
Who covered it, over timeindependent sources per week, by side
Mar 3Mar 10Mar 17
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Every week as a table
| Week of | Left | Center | Right | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2025 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Mar 10, 2025 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 109 |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 49 |
Stories before June 28, 2026 come from archived pages, so who covered them is limited to the outlets we recovered for that period.
17% left · 66% center · 17% right of 36 independent sources among the outlets we track, across 7 stories.
Every storyoldest first
March 2025
Mar 9– 10Search continues for college student who vanished on trip in Dominican Republic10 articles · 5 independent sources0 left, 3 center, 1 right- Mar 9– 13What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic75 articles · 28 independent sources5 left, 12 center, 4 right
- Mar 9– 12FBI joins search for US student who vanished in Dominican Republic17 articles · 10 independent sources1 left, 5 center, 2 right
- Mar 10Land, air and sea search underway for college student from US missing in Dominican Republic8 articles · 5 independent sources0 left, 3 center, 0 right
- Mar 10Missing Univ. of Pitt student believed to have drowned while on spring break in Dominican Republic7 articles · 2 independent sources0 left, 1 center, 1 right
- Mar 17– 18Parents of missing Pitt student Sudiksha Konanki ask Dominican Republic police to declare her dead36 articles · 18 independent sources1 left, 11 center, 1 right
- Mar 18– 20American last to see missing Pitt student alive in Dominican Republic lands in U.S.14 articles · 8 independent sources0 left, 2 center, 2 right