BND - Man shot and killed in Midtown subway station

🗞️ Story file #597

Man shot and killed in Midtown subway station

Oct 17, 5 PM ET to Oct 19, 4 PM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏5 · 0 · 8🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
21 sof TV captions
5 of 5parts of a saga

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Oct 17, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
Oct 18, 4 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
Oct 19, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 17, 5 PM to Oct 19, 4 PM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · 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.

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 subway platform

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “Man killed in shooting at Midtown Manhattan subway station: NYPD” → “Man killed in NYC subway shooting: Officials”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Man fatally shot during dispute at Midtown Manhattan subway station, police say” → “Man fatally shot during dispute at midtown Manhattan subway station, police say”
New York Post (3 wordings): “A man was shot and killed after an argument in a Midtown subway station Saturday afternoon turned deadly, police and sources said.” → “Police said Saturday’s midday fatal shooting at the Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street station in Manhattan marked the seventh killing in the city’s subway and bus system since January.”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Man Shot and Killed NYC Subway Station” → “Man Shot and Killed at NYC Subway Station”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating