BND - Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

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Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

Oct 6, 2 PM ET to Oct 8, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

16outlets carried it
🫏7 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
2.2 dayson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
28 minof TV captions
4radio newscasts
8 of 12parts of a saga

👣 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 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 6, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 6, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 7, 4 AM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 2 PM to Oct 8, 6 PM ET (peak 14), 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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 sally yates 🫏 ex-justice official sally

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review” → “Former US Deputy AG to head Cornell review”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Cornell Brings in Former Justice Department Official to Review Handling of Sexual Assault Claims” → “Title IX Cornell Brings in Former Justice Department Official to Review Handling of Sexual Assault Claims Jeff Charles”

Every outlet's first headline (16), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Cornell Brings In Ex-Justice Official Sally Yates To Review School’s Handling Of Sex Assault Claims Oct 6, 2 PM ET
ABC News Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review Oct 6, 3 PM ET
AP Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims Oct 6, 3 PM ET
NBC News Sally Yates, former acting attorney general who defied Trump, to lead Cornell investigation Oct 6, 7 PM ET
NPR Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case Oct 6, 3 PM ET
PBS NewsHour News Wrap: Cornell says Sally Yates will review handling of sexual assault reports Oct 6, 7 PM ET
The Washington Post Obama-era DOJ official to lead review of Cornell response to rape allegations Oct 6, 4 PM ET
Bloomberg Cornell Taps Former Deputy AG Yates to Probe Assault Response Oct 6, 2 PM ET
Reuters Cornell hires ex-Justice Dept official Yates to review rape claims response Oct 6, 5 PM ET
The Epoch Times Cornell Hires Former Deputy Attorney General to Review Sexual Misconduct Response Oct 7, 4 AM ET
New York Post Cornell taps ex-deputy AG Sally Yates to lead internal probe into handling of frat bro gang-rape claims Oct 6, 11 PM ET
Newsmax Sally Yates to Lead Cornell Sexual Assault Review Oct 6, 2 PM ET
The Daily Wire Cornell Taps Obama-Era Official To Probe School’s Handling Of Sex Assault Claims Oct 6, 5 PM ET
The Western Journal Cornell Appoints Former Acting Attorney General Who Was Fired by Trump for Insubordination to Lead Investigation Oct 6, 10 PM ET
Townhall Cornell Brings in Former Justice Department Official to Review Handling of Sexual Assault Claims Oct 7, 12 PM ET
Crooks and Liars Former Deputy AG Sally Yates Leading Independent Review Of Cornell's Actions Oct 7, 3 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN25 min

Fox News3 min

FORMER DEPUTY AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL'S INDEPENDENT REVIEW CNN, 13 min
NY ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE SEEKING ATTORNEYS TO ASSIST CORNELL PROBE CNN, 7 min
FORMER DOJ OFFICIAL SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL REVIEW OF HANDLING OF GANG RAPE ALLEGATIONS CNN, 2 min
SALLY YATES TO LEAD INDEPENDENT CORNELL REVIEW Fox News, 61 s
CORNELL TAPS EX-DOJ OFFICIAL TO PROBE HANDLING OF RAPE ALLEGATIONS CNN, 48 s
Sally Yates To Lead Independent Review Into How University Handles Sexual Assault Cases CNN, 43 s
FMR DEP AG SALLY YATES TO LEAD CORNELL REVIEW Fox News, 37 s
CORNELL SEXUAL ASSAULT ACCUSATION: CORNELL TAPS SALLY YATES TO LEAD INDEPENDENT REVIEW Fox News, 31 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 7, 7:10 AM ET: story 3 of 5
NPR News Now, Oct 6, 5:10 PM ET: the lead
ABC News Update, Oct 6, 4:32 PM ET: story 2 of 3
NPR News Now, Oct 6, 3:10 PM ET: the lead

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: Cornell University Sally Yates Department of Justice Justice Department Former Deputy Attorney General

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Cornell sexual assault scandal

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Oct 2, 5 PM ET
NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case
Oct 2, 5 PM ET
Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape investigation
Oct 3, 12 PM ET
District attorney declined to review additional evidence in Cornell rape case
Oct 3, 2 PM ET
Woman in Cornell rape case faces threats, lawyer says
Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Defense attorney calls for NY AG to recuse from Cornell investigation
Oct 6, 8 AM ET
Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration
Oct 6, 10 AM ET
Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling (this story)
Oct 6, 2 PM ET
Cornell student seeks removal of New York AG as special prosecutor
Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting
Oct 8, 6 PM ET
Cornell university investigates alleged rape allegations
Oct 8, 6 PM ET
Cornell accuser describes alleged 2024 gang rape incident
Oct 9, 11 AM ET

Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

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🧵 Cornell sexual assault scandal