BND - Mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania leaves nine dead

🗞️ Story file #317

Mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania leaves nine dead

Oct 10, 12 PM ET to Oct 10, 6 PM ET

32outlets carried it
🫏13 · 7 · 12🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
32front 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 10, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 10, 6 PM ETpeak: on 32 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 10, 12 PM to Oct 10, 6 PM ET (peak 32), 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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

💬 quoted: “deeply disturbing” 2 “Devastating” “gunman opened fire” “horrific”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 8 dead

✏️ 9 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “9 people killed in mass shooting at home: Police” → “8 people, including 2 kids, pregnant woman, killed at home: Police”
AP (3 wordings): “9 dead after shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, governor says; suspected shooter also dead” → “Shooting leaves 9 dead including suspect in Erie, Pennsylvania, police say”
BBC (3 wordings): “Nine dead in mass shooting at Pennsylvania home” → “Two children and pregnant woman among eight shot dead at Pennsylvania house”
CBS News (3 wordings): “Multiple people, including 2 children, killed in reported mass shooting in Erie” → “8 killed, including 2 children, in Pennsylvania mass shooting; suspect also dead”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Multiple people killed in Pennsylvania shooting; suspected gunman found dead: report” → “Police confirm 9 dead in Pennsylvania shooting, describe scene as 'horrific'”
HuffPost (3 wordings): “9 Dead After Shooting In Northern Pennsylvania” → “Shooting Leaves 9 Dead Including Suspect In Erie, Pennsylvania, Police Say”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Nine People Killed in Shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania” → “Nine People Killed in Shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania – Details to Come – Shooter Among Dead”
The Sun (2 wordings): “'DEEPLY DISTURBING' Children and pregnant woman among nine dead in horror mass shooting after ‘gunman opened fire’ at US home” → “'DEEPLY DISTURBING' Children & pregnant woman among 9 dead in horror shooting at US home”
USA Today (3 wordings): “Nine people, including the suspected gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, police say” → “Pennsylvania shooting leaves 9 dead, including children. What we know”