I was looking through the various headlines of CNN and one that struck me was the headline “How Minneapolis Police first described the murder of George Floyd, and what we know now”. It stood out to me because, while it was relevant to the current events of the United States, it was not the most…
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When looking for beats I scrolled through various articles within the politics category on Huffpost, I found two articles by Arthur Delaney within a few spaces of one another and I knew that I had found my beat reporter. Arthur Delaney covers all manner of subjects within the political beat, I found myself reading through…
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When looking at story structure I was first looking for a headline that would catch my eye, I figured this would be a good initial indicator for the setup and potential writing structure of the piece. That’s when I found this article about migrant children and their parents. The headline, while a bit wordy, struck…
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The feature article example I chose for this assignment is titled “Covid-19’s big public health lesson: Ask people to be careful, not perfect” written by German Lopez and published by Vox. I found this article in a collection of features written by different journalists centered around the pandemic. The article explains why it may be…
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A big picture topic that I found is the ” March Madness 20201: The Best and Worst of Day 1” that was published on Card Chronicles . The articles sources provide a number of different people and social media accounts which are the NCAA March Madness twitter page, Mike Rutherford, Barry Badrinath, CBS Sports, Sean…
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It has almost been a year since George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since then, the United States has been fighting for social rights and supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement more mightily than before. Small changes have been made in the year since Floyd’s death, but not many, and people continue to get treated…
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I tried to think of a very consequential topic that had been drowned out here in the US because of all the noise coming from the pandemic and election and their ongoing fallout. The one I picked was Chinese international relations, particularly as driven by their disputed territory with Japan, and the feature I found…
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The first-person article I found is titled “I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing” by Redditt Hudson, and was published by Vox in 2016. The first-person narration was used to expose the racial inequality and police brutality, the ex-cop witnessed his partners and other officers worsen. Brutal examples…
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When searching through articles for this blog post, the title of this one particularly stood out to me. My family is strongly republican, but I myself lean more towards the democratic side of things. Therefore I was a little curious when I saw this headline stating a new culture war. This article is an opinion…
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I had to look around a little bit to find an example of first-person journalism. I reasoned that VICE was an outlet I had remembered seeing a lot of first-person narratives from, and further figured that the “investigations” sub-tab under the “news” tab would be more likely to have what I was looking for than…
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