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🗞️ Story file #977

Star Trek actor Walter Koenig dies at 90

Oct 26, 2 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

25outlets carried it
🫏13 · 2 · 10🐘left · center · right
1.7 dayson the front pages
25front pages at once, at its peak
58 sof TV captions
5radio newscasts
19people 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 26, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 26, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 26, 10 PM ETpeak: on 25 front pages
Oct 27, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 19 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 2 PM to Oct 28, 6 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: 4 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Breitbart, Chicago Tribune, NBC News, Star Tribune)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Star Trek” 13

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

CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Walter Koenig, Chekov of ‘Star Trek’ fame, dies at 90” → “Entertainment Walter Koenig, Chekov of ‘Star Trek’ fame, dies at 90”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Walter Koenig Has Died at 90. He Played Chekov on ‘Star Trek.’” → “Walter Koenig, Chekov From ‘Star Trek,’ Has Died”
Rolling Stone (3 wordings): “Walter Koenig, Chekov on Original ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 90 3 hours ago” → “Walter Koenig, Original 'Star Trek' Star Who Played Pavel Chekov, Dead at 90”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Walter Koenig, Russian navigator Chekov on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 90” → “Walter Koenig, Russian navigator Chekov on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 90 - The Washington Post”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Walter Koenig, 'Star Trek' Star, Dies at 90 Amy Curtis” → “Walter Koenig, 'Star Trek' Star, Dies at 90”

Every outlet's first headline (25), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost ‘Star Trek’ Actor Walter Koenig Dies At 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
Rolling Stone Walter Koenig, Chekov on Original ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 90 3 hours ago Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The Daily Beast ‘Star Trek’ Legend Dies at 90 Oct 26, 4 PM ET
The Guardian Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
AP Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original ‘Star Trek’ series, dies at 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
CBS News Walter Koenig, actor who played Chekov on "Star Trek," dies at 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
CNN Breaking News Walter Koenig, Chekov of ‘Star Trek’ fame, dies at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Walter Koenig, ‘Star Trek’ franchise’s original Chekov, dies at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
NBC News Walter Koenig, actor who played Chekov on original ‘Star Trek’ series, dies at 90 Oct 26, 10 PM ET
New York Times Walter Koenig Has Died at 90. He Played Chekov on ‘Star Trek.’ Oct 26, 2 PM ET
Star Tribune Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The Independent Star Trek’s original Chekov, Walter Koenig, dies aged 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The Washington Post Walter Koenig, Russian navigator Chekov on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 90 Oct 26, 4 PM ET
BBC Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
Chicago Tribune Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original ‘Star Trek’ series who was born in Chicago, dies at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
Just the News 'Star Trek' actor Walter Koenig dies at 90 Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The Epoch Times Walter Koenig, Original ‘Star Trek’ Actor Who Played Ensign Chekov, Dies at Age 90 Oct 26, 8 PM ET
Breitbart Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on Original ‘Star Trek’ Series, Dies at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
IJR Star Trek Actor Walter Koenig Dies at 90 Oct 26, 5 PM ET
New York Post ‘Star Trek’ actor dead at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
Newsmax 'Star Trek' Actor Walter Koenig Dies at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
PJ Media Walter Koenig, Star Trek’s Chekov, Dies at 90 Oct 26, 10 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit Star Trek Actor Walter Koenig Dead at 90 Oct 26, 3 PM ET
The Post Millennial BREAKING: Star Trek star Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, dead at 90 Oct 26, 7 PM ET
Townhall Walter Koenig, 'Star Trek' Star, Dies at 90 Amy Curtis Oct 26, 2 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN45 s

BBC News13 s

ACTOR WALTER KOENIG, BEST KNOWN FOR "STAR TREK," DIES AT 90 CNN, 45 s
Looney Tunes actor Walter Koenig dies at 90 BBC News, 13 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 27, 7:10 AM ET: story 7 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 26, 11:09 PM ET: story 5 of 5
NPR News Now, Oct 26, 7:10 PM ET: story 5 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 26, 3:10 PM ET: story 5 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 26, 2:09 PM ET: story 4 of 6

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Walter Koenig, the actor known for his roles in Star Trek and Babylon 5, has died. Oct 28: told by 19 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Walter Koenig Star Trek

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the running story it belongs to

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