🗞️ Story file #612
Katie Zacharia fired from white House
Oct 18, 5 PM ET to Oct 19, 3 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 22 hourson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 of 3parts 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 18, 5 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Blindsided” “interview with Wall Street Journal when fired by Trump”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
Raw Story
Katie Zacharia committed an unforgivable offense that forced Trump to fire her Oct 17, 7 AM ET
Salon
Katie Zacharia was too incompetent even for Trump Oct 16, 3 PM ET
Slate
Katie Zacharia Did the Only Thing Trump Can’t Tolerate Oct 16, 7 PM ET
The Daily Beast
Trump ‘Blindsided’ by Embarrassing Truth About Katie Zacharia Oct 17, 3 PM ET
The Independent
White House’s Katie Zacharia sitting down for ‘interview with Wall Street Journal when fired by Trump’ Oct 18, 9 AM ET
Yahoo News
Why the Katie Zacharia debacle is a huge embarrassment for Trump and his White House Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Crooks and Liars
The Katie Zacharia Debacle Is 100% Trump’s Fault Oct 18, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
🧶 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.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Katie Zacharia
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Katie Zacharia's departure
Katie Zacharia grilled by Sean Hannity over legal credentials
Oct 17, 11 AM ET
Katie Zacharia fired from white House (this story)
Oct 18, 5 PM ET
Katie Zacharia ousted as White House press secretary after 5-day tenure
Oct 9, 3 PM ET