Dolores Huerta, labor and civil rights leader, dies at 96

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Dolores Huerta, labor and civil rights leader, dies at 96

Oct 28, 12 PM ET to Oct 28, 7 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

34outlets carried it
🫏16 · 8 · 8🐘left · center · right
7 hourson the front pages
34front pages at once, at its peak
12 sof TV captions
3radio newscasts

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Oct 28, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 28, 1 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 28, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 28, 4 PM ETpeak: on 34 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 12 PM to Oct 28, 7 PM ET (peak 34), 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.

💬 Quoted

“Fought for farm workers to the very end”1
“Sí, se puede”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Labor rights leader Dolores Huerta dies at 96” → “Dolores Huerta, civil rights icon, dies at 96”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor leader and civil rights icon, dies at 96” → “Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor leader and civil rights icon, dies at 96”
HuffPost (3 wordings): “Dolores Huerta, Pioneering Labor Leader And Civil Rights Activist, Dies At 96” → “Dolores Huerta, Pioneering Labor Leader And Civil Rights Activist, Dead At 96”
Los Angeles Times (4 wordings): “Dolores Huerta, the fiery and resolute activist who helped launch the nation’s first enduring union for poor farmworkers, dies” → “Aliados y simpatizantes de Dolores Huerta expresan su admiración por el legado de la activista”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “Breaking News Dolores Huerta, Labor Leader, Dies at 96: Her Life and Legacy” → “Dolores Huerta, Labor Leader, Dies at 96: Her Life and Legacy”
Scripps News (2 wordings): “Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers co-founder, dies at 96” → “Dolores Huerta, civil rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder, dies at 96”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Dolores Huerta, California labor leader and civil rights champion, dies aged 96” → “Tributes pour in for labor leader Dolores Huerta: ‘Fought for farm workers to the very end’”
Time (2 wordings): “Dolores Huerta, Labor Leader and Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 96” → “Activist Dolores Huerta Dies at 96. Here's What To Know About Her Trailblazing Life”