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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Karoline Leavitt's move to Fox News was remarkably uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points — far too narrow to indicate any meaningful ideological divide in framing. Nearly every outlet, including NBC, USA Today, The Hill, and Neutral News, relied on plain, wire-style construction: neutral verbs like "joins," "joining," and "lands," combined with straightforward identification of her prior role as White House press secretary. The sole marginal deviation came from Fox News itself, which scored slightly higher not due to loaded language but because scorers noted an implied favorable context from the platform reporting on its own hire. Even so, Fox's headline — "joins Fox News as contributor after leaving White House press secretary role" — is structurally indistinguishable from the others. In short, all outlets treated this as a routine career transition story, with no outlet deploying charged adjectives, framing her departure critically, or contextualizing the hire ideologically.