BND - White House taps Katie Zacharia as new press secretary

🗞️ Story file #291

White House taps Katie Zacharia as new press secretary

Oct 9, 3 PM ET to Oct 9, 5 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

42outlets carried it
🫏14 · 7 · 20🐘left · center · right
2 hourson the front pages
42front pages at once, at its peak

👣 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, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 9, 5 PM ETpeak: on 42 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 9, 3 PM to Oct 9, 5 PM ET (peak 42), 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. 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: 5 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (Axios, BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, Time)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News Political Wire

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 karoline leavitt

✏️ 17 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Katie Zacharia to Be Named New White House Press Secretary” → “Trump Names Katie Zacharia as White House Press Secretary”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Katie Zacharia offered role as White House Press Secretary” → “President Trump selects Karoline Leavitt's replacement as White House press secretary”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “White House Taps Rightwing Pundit As New Press Secretary: NYT” → “White House Taps Right-Wing Pundit As New Press Secretary”
Mediaite (3 wordings): “BREAKING: Trump Reportedly Taps Katie Zacharia As Press Secretary” → “BREAKING: Trump Taps Katie Zacharia As His New Press Secretary”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Live updates: Conservative commentator to be named White House press secretary” → “Katie Zacharia will be the next White House press secretary”
New York Post (2 wordings): “White House has found replacement for Karoline Leavitt as press secretary” → “Trump confirms Karoline Leavitt replacement for WH press secretary”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Katie Zacharia Picked as Next WH Press Secretary, Newsmax confirms” → “Katie Zacharia Picked as Next WH Press Sec, Newsmax Confirms”
One America News Network (2 wordings): “Katie Zacharia chosen to serve as new WH press secy.” → “Trump announces appointment of Katie Zacharia to WH press secy. role”
Red State (2 wordings): “Trump Picks Karoline Leavitt's Replacement — and She’s No Stranger to the Fight Teri Christoph” → “Trump Picks Karoline Leavitt's Replacement — and She’s No Stranger to the Fight”
Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “Another One Trump Taps Far-Right Commentator as New Press Secretary” → “Trump Taps Far-Right Commentator as New Press Secretary”
The Daily Caller (2 wordings): “Trump Taps Replacement For Karoline Leavitt” → “Trump Names Replacement For Karoline Leavitt”
The Daily Signal (2 wordings): “BREAKING: Trump Picks New Press Secretary” → “Trump Picks New Press Secretary”
The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “Trump Makes Offer To Replace Karoline Leavitt” → “Donald Trump Chooses New White House Press Secretary”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “BREAKING: White House Chooses New Press Secretary to Replace Karoline Leavitt” → “BREAKING UPDATE: Trump Confirms Appointment of New Press Secretary to Replace Karoline Leavitt”
The Washington Sun (2 wordings): “White House Has Offered an Adviser to Trump Media the Open Press Secretary Job” → “Trump Names an Adviser to Trump Media as White House Press Secretary”
Time (2 wordings): “White House Taps Katie Zacharia as Next Press Secretary” → “Trump Taps Katie Zacharia as Next White House Press Secretary”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Katie Zacharia tapped to be Trump’s next White House press secretary” → “Who is Katie Zacharia, Trump’s next White House press secretary?”