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Former House speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

Oct 5, 10 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

36outlets carried it
🫏13 · 8 · 13🐘left · center · right
1.4 dayson the front pages
36front pages at once, at its peak
55 sof TV captions
6radio newscasts

👣 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: CBS News
Oct 5, 11 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 5, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 6, 1 AM ETpeak: on 36 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 10 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 36), 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.

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 hastert longtime republican 🐘 former gop house

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Dennis Hastert, House Speaker Sullied by Abuse Case, Dies at 84” → “Dennis Hastert, Speaker Disgraced by Sex Abuse, Dies at 84”
Breitbart (3 wordings): “Disgraced Former Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84” → “Illinois Coroner: Disgraced Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert Dead at 84”
Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “Dennis Hastert, the former US House Speaker from Illinois, dies at 84” → “Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former US House speaker who went to prison, dies at 84”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Dennis Hastert, Longtime Republican House Speaker Who Went To Prison, Dead At 84” → “Dennis Hastert, Longtime Republican House Speaker Who Went To Prison, Dies At Age 84”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Former GOP House Speaker Hastert Dies at 84” → “Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dies at 84”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84 Cameron Arcand” → “House of Representatives Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84 Cameron Arcand”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Dennis Hastert dies at 84. The disgraced former House speaker spent 13 months in prison for a bank fraud conviction linked to abuse” → “Former disgraced House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84”

Every outlet's first headline (36), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Dennis Hastert, Longtime Republican House Speaker Who Went To Prison, Dead At 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
The Daily Beast Disgraced House Speaker Dies at 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
The Guardian Dennis Hastert, former House speaker disgraced by molestation allegations, dies aged 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Axios Dennis Hastert, disgraced ex-House speaker, dies at 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
CBS News Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
CNN Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison after molestation allegations, dies at age 84 Oct 6, 1 AM ET
Los Angeles Times Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at 84 Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Mediaite JUST IN: Ex-Republican Congressman and House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
NBC News Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
New York Times Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies Oct 5, 10 AM ET
The Independent Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dead at 84 Oct 5, 12 PM ET
The Washington Post Dennis Hastert, ex-House speaker whose sex abuse admission upended legacy, dies at 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
USA Today Dennis Hastert dies at 84. The disgraced former House speaker spent 13 months in prison for a bank fraud conviction linked to abuse Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Bloomberg Dennis Hastert, House Speaker Sullied by Abuse Case, Dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Chicago Tribune Dennis Hastert, the former US House Speaker from Illinois, dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Newsweek Dennis Hastert Dies at 84: Full Timeline of Scandals, Criminal Conviction Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Reuters Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84 Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Scripps News Obituaries Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 Scripps News Group Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Straight Arrow News Dennis Hastert, long-serving GOP speaker who faced child sex abuse allegations, dies Oct 5, 2 PM ET
The Hill Disgraced ex-GOP Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 Oct 5, 12 PM ET
WSJ Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Just the News Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
The Epoch Times Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dies at Age 84 Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Washington Examiner Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Breitbart Disgraced Former Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84 Oct 5, 1 PM ET
IJR Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 after prison term Oct 5, 1 PM ET
New York Post Former House Speaker who later admitted to sexual abuse dead at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
Newsmax Former GOP House Speaker Hastert Dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET
OAN Disgraced longest-serving House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84 Oct 5, 2 PM ET
The Daily Caller Disgraced Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dies At 84 Oct 5, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire Disgraced Former House Speaker Dead At 84 Oct 5, 5 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84; Coroner Releases Findings Oct 5, 3 PM ET
The Post Millennial BREAKING: Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert dead at 84 Oct 5, 12 PM ET
Townhall Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84 Cameron Arcand Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Punchbowl News Denny Hastert, disgraced former speaker, dies at 84 premium Washington Oct 5, 2 PM ET
The Washington Sun Disgraced Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dies at 84 Oct 5, 10 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN29 s

Fox News26 s

DENNIS HASTERT, DISGRACED FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER, DEAD AT 84 CNN, 29 s
IN MEMORIAM. FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT DIES AT 84 Fox News, 26 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 6, 3:09 AM ET: story 5 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 5, 4:10 PM ET: story 3 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 5, 3:11 PM ET: story 4 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 5, 2:09 PM ET: story 5 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 5, 12:09 PM ET: the lead
NPR News Now, Oct 5, 11:10 AM ET: the lead

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

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: Dennis Hastert House of Representatives Republican Party Illinois Congress of the United States

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.