BND - 71-year-old man killed by alligator while fishing in Florida

🗞️ Story file #590

71-year-old man killed by alligator while fishing in Florida

Oct 17, 1 PM ET to Oct 17, 6 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions

👣 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 17, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 17, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 17, 4 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 17, 1 PM to Oct 17, 6 PM ET (peak 8), 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 headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

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