🗞️ Story file #92
Former White House press secretary joins Fox News as contributor
Oct 5, 10 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 34outlets carried it
- 🫏15 · 5 · 13🐘left · center · right
- 1.4 dayson the front pages
- 34front pages at once, at its peak
- 20 sof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
- 8people retold it online
👣 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 5, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 5, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 5, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 5, 11 PM ETpeak: on 34 front pages
- Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 8 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Machine Gun,”
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Breitbart (2 wordings): “Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News After Leaving White House” → “Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News”
- Fox News (2 wordings): “Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News as contributor after leaving White House press secretary role” → “Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News, trading the briefing room for a broadcaster role”
- HuffPost (2 wordings): “⚡ REPORT: Karoline Leavitt Lands Fox News Gig…” → “Karoline Leavitt’s Next Move After The White House Is Pretty Much Exactly What You’d Expect”
- Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “Karoline Leavitt is Latest Trump Administration Official to Join Fox News 4 hours ago” → “Karoline Leavitt Is Latest Trump Administration Official to Join Fox News 3 hours ago”
- The Daily Beast (2 wordings): “Karoline Leavitt Gets New Job on Network Trump Just Flamed” → “Karoline Leavitt Busted as Hypocrite by Taking Fox News Perk”
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Karoline Leavitt heads to Fox News after exiting the Trump administration” → “Karoline Leavitt heads to Fox News after exit as Trump's press secretary”
Every outlet's first headline (34), left to right by AllSides rating
Alternet
MAGA piles on Karoline Leavitt as she ditches family for Fox News stint Oct 5, 11 AM ET
HuffPost
⚡ REPORT: Karoline Leavitt Lands Fox News Gig… Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Raw Story
Karoline Leavitt lands new job after leaving struggling Trump White House Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Rolling Stone
Karoline Leavitt is Latest Trump Administration Official to Join Fox News 4 hours ago Oct 5, 10 AM ET
The Daily Beast
Karoline Leavitt Gets New Job on Network Trump Just Flamed Oct 5, 10 AM ET
The Guardian
Trump’s former press secretary Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News Oct 5, 6 PM ET
CBS News
Karoline Leavitt joining Fox News as a contributor Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Los Angeles Times
Former Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Mediaite
BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News Oct 5, 10 AM ET
NBC News
Karoline Leavitt, former White House press secretary, joins Fox News as contributor Oct 5, 12 PM ET
New York Times
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News Oct 5, 10 AM ET
PBS NewsHour
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lands her next gig as Fox News contributor Oct 5, 12 PM ET
The Independent
Karoline Leavitt’s next career move revealed after exit as Trump’s press secretary Oct 5, 10 AM ET
USA Today
Karoline Leavitt's next role revealed after her exit from Trump's White House Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Yahoo News
Karoline Leavitt heads to Fox News after exiting the Trump administration Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Chicago Tribune
Karoline Leavitt set to join Fox News as on-air contributor Oct 5, 11 AM ET
News Nation
Karoline Leavitt to join news network after White House exit Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Newsweek
Karoline Leavitt Goes to Fox—Full List of Trump Officials Linked to Network Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Scripps News
Politics Former press secretary Karoline Leavitt lands her next gig: Fox News contributor AP via Scripps News Group Oct 5, 12 PM ET
The Hill
Karoline Leavitt joining Fox News Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Just the News
Karoline Leavitt lands Fox News contributor gig Oct 5, 10 AM ET
The Epoch Times
Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News as Contributor Oct 5, 2 PM ET
The Sun
WHAT'S NEXT Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News just 2 months after leaving White House Oct 5, 10 AM ET
The Washington Times
Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News as contributor Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Washington Examiner
Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News as a contributor Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Breitbart
Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News After Leaving White House Oct 5, 11 PM ET
Fox News
Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News as contributor after leaving White House press secretary role Oct 5, 10 AM ET
New York Post
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has a new gig Oct 5, 10 AM ET- OAN Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News as a contributor after leaving Trump admin. Oct 5, 4 PM ET
The Daily Caller
Karoline Leavitt Gets New Gig At Fox News Oct 5, 10 AM ET- The Daily Signal BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt to Join Fox News as Contributor Oct 5, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire
Karoline Leavitt Reveals Next Career Move After White House Exit Oct 5, 11 AM ET
The Western Journal
Just In: Karoline Leavitt Accepts New Job at Fox News Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Crooks and Liars
Quelle Surprise: Karoline Leavitt Is Joining Fox News As Network Infuriates Trump Oct 5, 1 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- KAROLINE LEAVITT JOINING FOX NEWS AS ON-AIR CONTRIBUTOR CNN, 20 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 5, 8:09 PM ET: story 5 of 8
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- She is a highly skilled and relentless liar who will continue to lie effectively, especially in environments like Fox where lying is common. Oct 6: told by 8 people (same issue)
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Karoline Leavitt Fox News
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.