BND - Sexual assault reported at UChicago frat house

🗞️ Story file #474

Sexual assault reported at UChicago frat house

Oct 14, 1 PM ET to Oct 16, 6 PM ET

16outlets carried it
🫏8 · 4 · 4🐘left · center · right
2.2 dayson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
5people retold it online

👣 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 14, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 15, 5 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages
Oct 17, 8 AM ETretold online by 5 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 1 PM to Oct 16, 6 PM ET (peak 14), 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 Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “CHEERED outside door as woman, 21, raped” “gang rape”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 near university 🫏 house near

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “Person of interest ID'd in UChicago sexual assault” → “Person of interest found in sexual assault at frat party near University of Chicago”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Police Investigate Woman’s Reported Sexual Assault at University of Chicago Frat House” → “Report of Rape at Frat Party Rocks Another Elite College Campus”
New York Post (2 wordings): “UChicago frat party rape suspect ID’d, banned from campus after braying crowd cheered him on” → “UChicago frat party sexual assault suspect ID’d, banned from campus after braying crowd cheered him on”
The Hill (2 wordings): “Person of interest identified in connection with sexual assault near University of Chicago campus” → “Police investigating report of sexual assault at frat house near University of Chicago; person of interest identified”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Another Gang Rape Allegation Has Been Reported, This Time at the University of Chicago Matt Vespa” → “Another Gang Rape Allegation Has Been Reported, This Time at the University of Chicago”

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