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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #65

U.S. adds fewer jobs than expected in September

Oct 4, 1 PM ET to Oct 4, 1 PM ET

πŸ‘£ 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.

  1. Oct 4, 1 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 3, 6 PMOct 46 AM12 PMHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: Unemployment Ticks Up, U.S. Add Disappointing Number Of Jobs In SeptemberReutersReutersReuters, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: US job growth undershoots expectations in September, but labor market remains stableTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: The September Jobs Report Is HereIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 2, 5:42 PM ET: September jobs report shows stronger-than-expected private sector gainsMSNBCMSNBCMSNBC, Oct 3, 8:38 AM ET: Jobs report far below expectations, unemployment ticks upThe BulwarkThe BulwarkThe Bulwark, Oct 3, 8:38 AM ET: September Jobs Report Falls Far Short of Forecasts
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.
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

πŸ“ΊπŸ€· No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

πŸ¦— Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: Bureau of Labor Statistics Private Sector Labor Market

πŸ”Ž Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧡 September jobs report

  1. U.S. added 29,000 jobs in September

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  2. U.S. adds fewer jobs than expected in September (this story)

    Oct 4, 1 PM ET