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Multimedia stories

Salt Lake City’s homeless Youth:
This story is told perfectly because it has a somber but hopeful tone. The beginning of the story has pictures of some of the interviewed youth along with their voices as their picture comes up. The story has pictures along with sound bites of the people being interviewed. There are pictures while we hear their voices.

Life Lessons: loosing a leg to a drunk driver:

I liked the story but I did not like all the different ways it was told on the page. There was too much going on and I got annoyed after the 2nd form of telling the story. There were picture, his voice, online story, and a video story. It would be nice if they stuck to one or two ways to tell the story. I would like it if they had the online story with his voice and the slideshow. The other forms of telling the story were unnecessary.

Obama’s People:

This was a good story explaining who are in the president’s cabinet. It was easy to navigate and every picture had an explanation of what the person did. I liked how the photographers talked about their experiences interviewing the people in the pictures because it made it more personal.

Melissa Dixson: The Urban Taxidermist:

This was a good story well told. Whatever the lady said there was a picture that went with what she was talking about. The pictures were in black and white and this gave a tone that that went with death. She was talking about stuffing dead animals so it had a somber tone and the pictures even her tone of voice portrayed this.

Marc Tremitiere: The baby deliverer:

This was one of my favorite ones because you already know that there’s going to be a happy ending. There are pictures of the baby before you know the baby is going to fine. The story enfolds and you want to know how the baby was born. When you find out that the father delivered the baby it makes you happy. The story has a serous tone because its in black and white but its also comes across personal because of the extreme close up pictures.

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Citrus report

Florida’s cold freeze reduces citrus crops by two point five percent.

Florida’s largest citrus grower, Florida Citrus Mutual , has taken off several million boxes from their earlier estimate in October.

Florida citrus was hit with a cold spell from January- February with temperatures dropping to 28 degrees nights.

The Unites States Department of Agriculture, USD released its report and reduced its earlier estimate by 2.5 percent, or 4 million boxes. The USDA makes its initial forecast in October and then revises it monthly until the end of the season in July .

The crop is now expected to total 158 million boxes.

The executive vice president and CEO, Michael W. Sparks, of Florida Citrus Mutual blamed the reduction to the weather.

“With the field reports we’re getting regarding fruit damage and juice yield loss from the late January and early February freezes we would expect less juice production than we were just a month ago,” Sparks said

“This is most definitely a challenging season,” Sparks said.

In 2007-2008, Florida harvested 170.2 million boxes of oranges.

related articles:

California freeze

Texas Citrus

Florida Cold

St. Lucie freeze

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Major news organizations Linking to other news sites

I think that Linking to other news sources is a great change for mainstream news organizations. Their stories will become more credible because people will be able to link to the sources that are mentioned. Although this will most likely give more web traffic and credibility to other news sources, this will not stop people from going to their preferred news organizations. According to Brian Stelter's article on this phenomenon, linking to other site’s will actually benefit all news organizations sites. The more links to other sites the more those sites will link you on their sites. It’s all a win-win situation for all sides.

Wire serves like the Associated Press will not die out because of linking. With linking, news is coming from everywhere, so the AP will be the ones who actually have the correct facts. Although these news organizations are making efforts to link to many sites, some of these sites may not have all the facts. An example is when I go on any news organization’s website to find information on something. I can click on many different links but they all say the same things, and I eventually end up going in circles. As mentioned in Stelter’s article many of these news organizations have been linking for years. That is why they are all becoming interconnected through one another, and are able to find one news organization through another.

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Story idea: Steroids

The story idea is: Government organizations have been neglecting steroid abuse at colleges and Universities and have mainly been focusing on Major league players, like Barry Bonds.

 

My facts come from various online sources that contribute to my story idea.

The first online source comes from this article by Jon Coury (http://www.helium.com/items/396862-an-inside-look-at-steroid-abuse-in-college-and-high-school). In his article he points out how the NCAA has been focusing on big time major league players and steroid abuse. He has quotes from college students who believe steroid abuse has increased.

 

The next source is the National Collegiate Association. (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=43897) They are under criticism for not shedding more light on the issue of steroid abuse.  The NCAA has not been educating college athletes and students on the dangers of steroid abuse.

 

On the office of National Drug Control Policy (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/steroids/steroids_ff.html) there are facts and figures on last year’s numbers of steroid use among college students.

 

The next fact comes from the National institute on drug abuse. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/RRSteroids.pdf) Their research includes facts and figures on only high school and middle school kids. There isn’t anything on steroid abuse at colleges and universities. This is a government agency and it’s shocking that they don’t have facts on college students and athletes. They are forgetting about students and athletes at a college level and they are using steroids as much as high school and middle school students.

 

Another article, written by Ray Fauteux , explains why college students  and athletes are using steroids. (http://www.helium.com/items/1299831-drugs-and-sports-steroids-use-among-college-athletes)

 

The next site has an article on Texas picking a popular company to do steroid testing at high schools. It also talks about how companies compete to run drug test on students from high schools to colleges. (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/news/story?id=3208890) This website gives me facts on how colleges and Universities are testing their students for steroids.

 

My last site is the drug free sport website which explains how and how they test for steroid abuse at colleges and universities.  (http://www.drugfreesport.com/services/drug-testing-admin-services.asp)