Trump signs executive order on women's health

🗞️ Story file #645

Trump signs executive order on women's health

Oct 19, 12 PM ET to Oct 22, 7 AM ET

26outlets carried it
🫏9 · 5 · 12🐘left · center · right
2.8 dayson the front pages
24front pages at once, at its peak
7 minof TV captions
1radio newscast

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Oct 19, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
Oct 19, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 19, 10 PM ETpeak: on 24 front pages
Oct 19, 10 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 12 PM to Oct 22, 7 AM ET (peak 25), 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.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune, Newsmax)

💬 quoted: “Critical” “new standard for women's health” “Transformative” “new standard for women's health in America”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 executive order 🐘 health division

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

Just the News (3 wordings): “Melania Trump unveils WH woman's health initiatives” → “Trump and Republicans show a more female-friendly side of the story with new E.O. on women's health”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Trump signs executive order on women’s health spearheaded by Melania Trump” → “Trump launches women’s health initiative at National Institutes of Health”
New York Post (5 wordings): “Trump signs executive order creating NIH task force as Melania unveils ‘new standard for women’s health in America’” → “Trump signs executive order creating NIH task force as Melania unveils ‘new standard for women’s health’”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “Trump Order to Boost Women's Health Research” → “Trump Signs Order to Boost Women's Health Research”
Red State (2 wordings): “Melania Trump Makes Her Mark With Sweeping New Women's Health Initiative Jennifer Oliver O'Connell” → “Melania Trump Makes Her Mark With Sweeping New Women's Health Initiative”
Reuters (3 wordings): “Trump to create new NIH division, task force for women's health” → “Trump signs order creating NIH division, task force for women's health - Reuters”
The Epoch Times (3 wordings): “LIVE NOW: Trump, First Lady Sign Executive Order at White House” → “Trump, First Lady Sign Executive Order at White House”
The Hill (3 wordings): “Watch live: Trump, first lady unveil new women’s health initiative” → “Trump establishes new women’s health divisions”
USA Today (3 wordings): “First lady took on women’s health. Now Trump is acting —Exclusive” → “What Trump's new women's health order could mean for you”

Every outlet's first headline (26), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Trump Trots Out Cheryl Hines, Melania Trump, Usha Vance To Sign Women’s Health Executive Order Oct 19, 9 PM ET
The Daily Kos Trump hands women’s health task force to unqualified man Oct 19, 3 PM ET
AP Trump signs an order aimed at boosting women's health research, a plan backed by the first lady Oct 19, 2 PM ET
CBS News Trump signs executive order on women's health Oct 19, 1 PM ET
NBC News Trump signs executive order on women’s health spearheaded by Melania Trump Oct 19, 12 PM ET
PBS NewsHour WATCH: Trump and first lady unveil new task force on women's health research Oct 19, 4 PM ET
The Independent Trump and Melania’s awkward speech on women’s health — and the comical hypocrisy behind it Oct 19, 2 PM ET
USA Today First lady took on women’s health. Now Trump is acting —Exclusive Oct 19, 10 AM ET
Yahoo News Melania Trump pushed Trump on women’s health overhaul | Exclusive Oct 19, 10 PM ET
Chicago Tribune President Trump signs an order aimed at boosting women’s health research, a plan backed by the first lady Oct 19, 4 PM ET
News Nation Trump signs executive order expanding women's health initiatives Oct 19, 12 PM ET
Newsweek The Awkward Case for Thanking Trump on Women’s Health Oct 20, 6 PM ET
Reuters Trump to create new NIH division, task force for women's health Oct 19, 11 AM ET
The Hill Watch live: Trump, first lady unveil new women’s health initiative Oct 19, 12 PM ET
Just the News Melania Trump unveils WH woman's health initiatives Oct 19, 12 PM ET
The Epoch Times LIVE NOW: Trump, First Lady Sign Executive Order at White House Oct 19, 11 AM ET
The Washington Times Trump signs order creating NIH division and White House task force on women’s health Oct 19, 1 PM ET
Washington Examiner WATCH LIVE: Donald and Melania Trump to sign women’s health executive order Oct 19, 11 AM ET
Breitbart Trump, First Lady Announce Actions Aimed at Improving Women’s Health Oct 19, 10 PM ET
IJR Trump to sign order creating NIH women’s health division Oct 19, 1 PM ET
New York Post Trump signs executive order creating NIH task force as Melania unveils ‘new standard for women’s health in America’ Oct 19, 12 PM ET
Newsmax Trump Order to Boost Women's Health Research Oct 19, 2 PM ET
OAN Trump signs EO, backed by Melania Trump, establishing new WH women’s health task force and NIH division Oct 19, 1 PM ET
Red State Melania Trump Makes Her Mark With Sweeping New Women's Health Initiative Jennifer Oliver O'Connell Oct 19, 3 PM ET
The Daily Wire President And First Lady Take On ‘Critical’ Women’s Health Problems Oct 19, 3 PM ET
Townhall Melania Trump-Backed Executive Order Aims to Open Doors in Women's Health Cameron Arcand Oct 19, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN5 min

Fox News2 min

MSNOW47 s

TRUMP, FIRST LADY REVEAL NEW WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE CNN, 5 min
KAVANAUGH WOULD VOTE TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE MSNOW, 40 s
FIRST LADY SPEARHEADS WOMEN'S HEALTH EXEC ORDER Fox News, 30 s
FIRST LADY ADDS TO LEGACY WITH WOMEN'S HEALTH Fox News, 19 s
S. TRUMP SIGNS ORDER BOOSTING WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH Fox News, 18 s
NEW INITIATIVE CALLS FOR FUNDING, USE OF AI, EXPANSION OF ACCESS TO BREAKTHROUGHS IN RESEARCH Fox News, 12 s
GIRL POWER. TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER ON WOMEN'S HEALTH Fox News, 11 s
KAVANOUGH WOULD VOTE TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE ON THE ACT IN ORD MSNOW, 7 s