Former West Virginia governor and senator dies at 89

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Former West Virginia governor and senator dies at 89

Nov 6, 10 AM ET to Nov 6, 1 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

18outlets carried it
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3 hourson the front pages
18front pages at once, at its peak
2radio newscasts

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Nov 6, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Nov 6, 10 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Nov 6, 12 PM ETpeak: on 18 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 8 times in 10 (96 stories)

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 6, 10 AM to Nov 6, 1 PM ET (peak 18), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

2 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word

CNBC, NBC News

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aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Reuters (2 wordings): “Jay Rockefeller, heir to famed dynasty and healthcare advocate in US Senate, dies at 89” → “Jay Rockefeller, heir to famed dynasty and healthcare advocate in US Senate, dies at 89 - Reuters”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Jay Rockefeller, Senate voice on health care and security, dies at 89” → “Jay Rockefeller, Senate voice on health care and security, dies at 89 - The Washington Post”

📰 Every outlet's headline 18left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, Former U.S. Senator From Famous Oil Dynasty, Dies
The Daily Beast🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET Rockefeller Dynasty Heir and Former Senator Dies at 89
CBS News🕒 Nov 6, 11 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, former governor and U.S. senator, dies at 89
CNBC🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, heir to famed dynasty and healthcare advocate in U.S. Senate, dies at 89
Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and U.S. senator who was part of a dynasty, dies at 89
NBC News🕒 Nov 6, 9 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, heir to famed dynasty and healthcare advocate in Senate, dies at 89
New York Times🕒 Nov 6, 9 AM ET John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Governor and Senator, Dies at 89
PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 6, 11 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and U.S. senator, dies at 89
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 6, 9 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, Senate voice on health care and security, dies at 89
Reuters🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, heir to famed dynasty and healthcare advocate in US Senate, dies at 89
Straight Arrow News🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET John D. Rockefeller IV, former West Virginia governor and US senator, dies at 89
Just the News🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Former US Senator, West Virginia Gov. Jay Rockefeller dies at 89
The Washington Times🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET Jay Rockefeller, descendant of oil titan, dies at 89
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 6, 9 AM ET Former West Virginia governor and senator Jay Rockefeller dies at 89
New York Post🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Ex-Sen. John Jay Rockefeller, heir to famed dynasty, dead at 89
Newsmax🕒 Nov 6, 9 AM ET Former West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller Dies at 89
The National Desk🕒 Nov 6, 11 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, longtime US senator and former West Virginia governor, dies at 89
The Washington Sun🕒 Nov 6, 10 AM ET Jay Rockefeller, a Giant of West Virginia Politics, Dies at 89

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Jay RockefellerWest VirginiaSenateHealthcare advocateOil dynasty

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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Former West Virginia governor and senator dies at 89

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