CDC deputy director resigns after four months

🗞️ Story file #1015

CDC deputy director resigns after four months

Oct 27, 12 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏7 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
18 hourson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak

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Oct 27, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Times
Oct 27, 10 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 12 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 12), 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.

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (4 wordings): “CDC's chief medical officer resigns after being hired in April” → “CDC's deputy director resigns”
Just the News (2 wordings): “CDC's deputy director and chief medical officer leaving administration after six months in position” → “Shuford to leave CDC deputy director, chief medical officer leaving posts after four months”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “CDC’s deputy director to leave Trump administration after six months” → “CDC’s deputy director to leave Trump administration after brief stint”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating