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🗞️ Story file #154

Cornell names former deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

Oct 6, 2 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

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  1. Oct 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 6, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
  3. Oct 6, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  4. Oct 6, 7 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 3 PM4 PM5 PM6 PM7 PM1020leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 2 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 20), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 6, 2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM6 PM7 PMNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: Sally Yates to Lead Internal Investigation Into Cornell’s Handling of Sexual Assault ReportHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Cornell Brings In Ex-Justice Official Sally Yates To Review School’s Handling Of Sex Assault ClaimsNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Cornell retains former acting attorney general to lead sex assault investigationBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Cornell Taps Former Deputy AG Yates to Probe Assault ResponseBloomberg, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell Taps Former Deputy AG to Probe Assault ResponseJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Former Deputy AG Sally Yates to review Cornell's handling of sexual misconduct casesNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Sally Yates to Lead Cornell Sexual Assault ReviewAPAPAP, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claimsAP, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims - AP NewsFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell picks former deputy US attorney general to review sex assault responseFox News, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell picks former deputy US attorney general to examine sex assault responseMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell Taps Former Obama DOJ Official to Review How it Handles Sexual Misconduct ComplaintsUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell says Sally Yates will lead an independent sex abuse reviewABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent reviewNPRNPRNPR, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape caseThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Obama-era DOJ official to lead review of Cornell response to rape allegationsThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Former Obama official will review Cornell’s handling of sexual misconduct complaintsCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Cornell taps Sally Yates to lead review of its response to sexual misconduct claimsThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Cornell retains former acting attorney general to lead investigationThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Cornell Taps Obama-Era Official To Probe School’s Handling Of Sex Assault ClaimsReutersReutersReuters, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Cornell hires ex-Justice Dept official Yates to review rape claims responseNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 6, 7:00 PM ET: Sally Yates, former acting attorney general who defied Trump, to lead Cornell investigationPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 6, 7:00 PM ET: News Wrap: Cornell says Sally Yates will review handling of sexual assault reports📺 TVCNN, 3:42 PM ET: FORMER DEPUTY AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL'S INDEPENDENT REVIEWCNN, 3:43 PM ET: FORMER DEPUTY AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL'S INDEPENDENT REVIEWCNN, 3:44 PM ET: FORMER DEPUTY AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL'S INDEPENDENT REVIEWCNN, 3:44 PM ET: FORMER DEPUTY AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL'S INDEPENDENT REVIEWCNN, 5:16 PM ET: CORNELL: EX-U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL'S RESPONSE TO JANE DOE’S RAPE ALLEGATIONSCNN, 5:17 PM ET: CORNELL: EX-U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL'S RESPONSE TO JANE DOE’S RAPE ALLEGATIONSCNN, 5:18 PM ET: CORNELL: EX-U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL'S RESPONSE TO JANE DOE’S RAPE ALLEGATIONSCNN, 5:19 PM ET: CORNELL: EX-U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL'S RESPONSE TO JANE DOE’S RAPE ALLEGATIONS📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 6, 5:10 PM ET: the leadABC News Update, Oct 6, 4:32 PM ET: story 2 of 3NPR News Now, Oct 6, 3:10 PM ET: the lead
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. 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: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 cornell taps

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • AP (2 wordings): “Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims” → “Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims - AP News”
  • Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Cornell Taps Former Deputy AG Yates to Probe Assault Response” → “Cornell Taps Former Deputy AG to Probe Assault Response”
  • Fox News (2 wordings): “Cornell picks former deputy US attorney general to review sex assault response” → “Cornell picks former deputy US attorney general to examine sex assault response”
Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN4 min
  • CORNELL: EX-U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL'S RESPONSE TO JANE DOE’S RAPE ALLEGATIONS CNN, 3 min
  • FORMER DEPUTY AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL'S INDEPENDENT REVIEW CNN, 2 min

📻 On the radio

  • NPR News Now, Oct 6, 5:10 PM ET: the lead
  • ABC News Update, Oct 6, 4:32 PM ET: story 2 of 3
  • NPR News Now, Oct 6, 3:10 PM ET: the lead

🧶 Retelling

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: Cornell University Sally Yates Department of Justice Justice Department Former Deputy Attorney General

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Cornell sexual assault scandal

  1. New York governor appoints Attorney General as special prosecutor in Cornell rape case

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  2. Cornell university faces scrutiny over rape allegations and investigation

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  3. Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape investigation

    Oct 3, 12 PM ET

  4. District attorney declined to review additional evidence in Cornell rape case

    Oct 3, 2 PM ET

  5. Woman in Cornell rape case faces threats, lawyer says

    Oct 5, 11 AM ET

  6. Defense attorney calls for NY AG to recuse from Cornell investigation

    Oct 6, 8 AM ET

  7. Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration

    Oct 6, 10 AM ET

  8. Cornell names former deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling (this story)

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

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