BND - Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies at 34

🗞️ Story file #387

Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies at 34

Oct 12, 6 PM ET to Oct 15, 4 PM ET

20outlets carried it
🫏10 · 4 · 6🐘left · center · right
2.9 dayson the front pages
19front pages at once, at its peak
89 sof TV captions
1radio newscast

👣 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 12, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 12, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 13, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 13, 5 PM ETpeak: on 19 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 6 PM to Oct 15, 4 PM ET (peak 19), 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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Breaking Bad” 5

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 bad star

✏️ 9 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Late 'Breaking Bad' star RJ Mitte remembered for cerebral palsy advocacy” → “RJ Mitte remembered for cerebral palsy advocacy”
CBS News (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at age 34” → “RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at 34”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, Who Played Walter White Jr. On ‘Breaking Bad,’ Dies At 34” → “RJ Mitte, Who Played Walter White Jr. On ‘Breaking Bad,’ Dead At 34”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s son on ‘Breaking Bad,’ is dead at 34” → “RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor who played Walter White’s son, is dead at 34”
News Nation (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, star of 'Breaking Bad', dead at 34: Report” → “RJ Mitte, star of 'Breaking Bad,' dead at 34: Report”
Rolling Stone (3 wordings): “RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' Star Who Played Walt Jr., Dead at 34” → “‘Breaking Bad’ Star RJ Mitte’s Cause of Death Confirmed as Suicide 9 minutes ago”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad role, dies aged 34” → “RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad, dies aged 34”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34” → “RJ Mitte met with Breaking Bad co-star days before his tragic death”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Breaking Bad Star RJ Mitte Dies at 34” → “Breaking Bad Star RJ Mitte Dies at 34 Joe Chalfant”