Jay-Z confirmed as Super Bowl LXI halftime performer

🗞️ Story file #999

Jay-Z confirmed as Super Bowl LXI halftime performer

Oct 26, 11 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

22outlets carried it
🫏9 · 7 · 6🐘left · center · right
1.3 dayson the front pages
22front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
6radio newscasts
14people 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, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 27, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 6 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 27, 12 PM ETpeak: on 22 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 14 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 11 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 22), 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: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (NPR)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “A Dream Come True”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 jay-z picks

✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (3 wordings): “Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Southern California” → “Jay-Z picks himself to headline the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Southern California - AP News”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Jay-Z to headline Super Bowl LXI halftime show in Los Angeles” → “Jay-Z to headline Apple Music Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show in Los Angeles”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Jay-Z Will Headline The 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show” → “Headliner For 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show Announced”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “It’s official! Jay-Z will headline the 2027 Super Bowl halftime show” → “Jay-Z encabezará el show del medio tiempo del Super Bowl LXI en el SoFi Stadium”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Jay-Z headlining Apple Music Super Bowl 2027 halftime show” → “Super Bowl 2027 halftime headliner announced”
News Nation (2 wordings): “JAŸ-Z to headline Super Bowl halftime show” → “Jay-Z to headline Super Bowl halftime show”
Rolling Stone (2 wordings): “Jay-Z to Headline Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show: ‘A Dream Come True’” → “Big Game Player Jay-Z to Headline Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show: ‘A Dream Come True’”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Jay-Z to headline 2027 Super Bowl half-time show” → “Jay-Z picks headliner for 2027 Super Bowl half-time show … Jay-Z”