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🗞️ Story file #585

Katie Zacharia grilled by Sean Hannity over legal credentials

Oct 17, 11 AM ET to Oct 17, 1 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 17, 11 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 17, 11 AM to Oct 17, 1 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 16, 6 PMOct 176 AM12 PMUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 16, 12:00 PM ET: Katie Zacharia gets tough treatment from Trump ally Sean HannityWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 16, 1:00 PM ET: Katie Zacharia’s rough first week continues, Fox News grills her on her legal acumenRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 16, 1:00 PM ET: 'Taking her out': Ex-Fox News host says network slapping Katie Zacharia with 'pro hit job'The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 16, 2:00 PM ET: Katie Zacharia grilled by Fox anchor Sean Hannity over ‘lawyer’ claimHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 16, 4:00 PM ET: Katie Zacharia’s Disastrous Hannity Interview Held Several Clues For Her FateThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 16, 4:00 PM ET: Watch: Here's the 'Tough' Hannity Interview That Led to Katie Zacharia's DepartureThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 16, 4:00 PM ET: Hannity takes Zacharia to task over legal credentialsMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 16, 11:00 PM ET: Susie Wiles Reportedly Arranged Disastrous Katie Zacharia Interview on Hannity: ‘Sanctioned Hit’
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: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “lawyer” “pro hit job” “Sanctioned Hit” “Taking her out”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🃏 The Babylon Bee NewsThump The Babylon Bee

🧶 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: Katie Zacharia Fox News Sean Hannity Susie Wiles Hannity

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Katie Zacharia's departure

  1. Katie Zacharia grilled by Sean Hannity over legal credentials (this story)

    Oct 17, 11 AM ET

  2. Katie Zacharia leaves White House press secretary post

    Oct 9, 3 PM ET