BND - Legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka dies at 86

🗞️ Story file #283

Legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka dies at 86

Oct 9, 12 PM ET to Oct 9, 5 PM ET

31outlets carried it
🫏10 · 6 · 15🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
31front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
3radio newscasts

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 9, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 9, 12 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 9, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 9, 4 PM ETpeak: on 31 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 9, 12 PM to Oct 9, 5 PM ET (peak 31), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Real Clear Politics

💬 quoted: “Chicago won't be the same” “Da Coach” “This is Mike Ditka we're talking about. This is a big deal.”

✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “NFL Legend Mike Ditka Dies at 86” → “Legendary Bears Head Coach and Hall of Fame Tight End Mike Ditka Dies at 86”
Chicago Tribune (3 wordings): “Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears Hall of Famer and Super Bowl-winning coach, dies at 86” → “‘This is Mike Ditka we’re talking about. This is a big deal.’ Tributes pour in across Chicago for Da Coach.”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Legendary Bears head coach Mike Ditka dead at 86” → “Mike Ditka, legendary Chicago Bears coach and Super Bowl champion, dead at 86”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “⚡ Mike Ditka, Legendary Chicago Bears Coach, Dead At 86…” → “Mike Ditka, The Quintessential Chicago Bear, Dies At 86”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “Mike Ditka, legendary coach of 1985 Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears and first tight end inducted into Hall of Fame, dies at 86” → “Mike Ditka, legendary coach of 1985 Chicago Bears and first tight end inducted into Hall of Fame, dies”
Newsweek (3 wordings): “Breaking News Chicago Bears Super Bowl Legend Mike Ditka Dies at 86” → “Chicago Bears Super Bowl Legend Mike Ditka Dies at 86”
Straight Arrow News (2 wordings): “Chicago Bears legend Mike Ditka dies at 86” → “‘Da Coach’: Chicago Bears legend Mike Ditka dies at 86”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Mike Ditka, legendary Chicago Bears head coach, dies at 86” → “Mike Ditka, fiery NFL legend who led the Chicago Bears to Super Bowl title, dies aged 86”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Legendary Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka Dies at Age 86 Amy Curtis” → “Legendary Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka Dies at Age 86”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Mike Ditka, Hall of Famer and Chicago Bears legend, dies at 86” → “Mike Ditka, three-time Super Bowl champ, dies at 86”