President Donald Trump tweeted that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus just before 1 a.m. on Friday morning.
“Immediately, all the TV networks jumped on the story. MSNBC’s Brian Williams called it a ‘colossal story.’ White House correspondents, such as CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and ABC News’ Jonathan Karl (on the phone), started their reporting. Sean Hannity called into Fox News,” wrote my Poynter colleague, Tom Jones.
Print, audio and digital journalists jumped on the story, too, but the late-breaking news doesn’t appear to have made a lot of newspaper front pages. Here are several we found where it did, via Newseum. See any we’re missing? Please let us know. We’re updating as we find them.
Late editions of today’s @nypost and @NYDailyNews have the Trump news. pic.twitter.com/IilRQh53Nb
— Padraic Ryan (@ryan_padraic) October 2, 2020
‘Trump tests positive for coronavirus’
Front Page of Friday’s @baltimoresun.https://t.co/ijX9D7vWVp pic.twitter.com/BJ95AlH0Mo
— ulysitos ☀️ (@y00lz) October 2, 2020
Editor’s note: As we’ve added front pages to this story, the headline and subhead have been updated.
Kristen Hare covers the business and people of local news for Poynter.org and is the editor of Locally. You can subscribe to her weekly newsletter here. Kristen can be reached at khare@poynter.org or on Twitter at @kristenhare.
