🗞️ Story file #1535
Two senior Justice Department officials resign
Nov 6, 1 PM ET to Nov 6, 4 PM ET
- 14outlets carried it
- 🫏9 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 3 hourson the front pages
- 15front pages at once, at its peak
- 1radio newscast
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
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- Nov 6, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
- Nov 6, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Nov 6, 3 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 7 times in 10 (159 stories)
💬 Quoted
- “grand conspiracy”2
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Political Wire
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
📰 Every outlet's headline 14left to right by AllSides rating
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET
Two more DoJ officials resign, including US attorney leading inquiry into Trump rivals
- The New Republic🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET
Two Top Justice Department Officials Jump Ship on the Same Day
- CBS News🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
Top lawyer in DOJ's National Security Division abruptly resigns
- CNN🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
Three senior DOJ officials have resigned since brutal midterm losses
- Mediaite🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET
More Senior DOJ Officials Head for the Exits After GOP’s Midterm Massacre
- NBC News🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET
Top DOJ officials resign after midterms, including head of ‘grand conspiracy’ probe
- Star Tribune🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET 2 Justice Department officials resign, including US attorney who oversaw 'grand conspiracy' probe
- The Washington Post🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
Two more DOJ officials resign, including head of national security division
- Yahoo News🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET
2 top DOJ officials resign, including assistant attorney general for national security
- Reuters🕒 Nov 6, 3 PM ET
Two top Justice Department officials resign as post-election exodus accelerates
- Fox News🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET
Justice Department shake-up widens as two more top officials head for the exits
- Newsmax🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET
2 Senior Justice Department Officials Resign
- Red State🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET
Two More Top DOJ Officials Abruptly Resign, Including Key Figure in Brennan Investigation
- The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 6, 12 PM ET
BREAKING: Two More DOJ Officials Abruptly Resign – Including Top Prosecutor Spearheading Russiagate Case Against John Brennan
📡 Broadcast
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📺 On TV
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📺🤷 No TV captions matched to it.
📻 On the radio
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🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
Justice DepartmentJohn BrennanBrennan InvestigationRussiagate
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 DOJ official resignations
Federal prosecutor resigns from DOJ amid 'grand conspiracy' probe
Nov 6, 11 AM ET
Two senior Justice Department officials resign (this story)
Nov 6, 1 PM ET