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For my third story, I am writing about the Magnolias Curriculum Project created in 2012 by the Wake Forest University Office of Sustainability. Their initiative helps faculty by exploring ways they can integrate sustainability into their syllabi. The two-day workshop each May offers opportunities to extend research and teaching horizons across disciplines and create new networks with fellow colleagues. Following the workshop, faculty participants prepare discipline-specific course materials on their own over the summer. They reconvene in early August to discuss their insights and experiences.

For my sources, I am interviewing six professors, recommended by Dedee Johnston, who recently participated in the Magnolias Curriculum Project. Also, I will interview an assortment of students, who took and did not take classes with the added climate change component, about their opinions of the project and overall feelings of climate change.

For my second story, I am planning on doing a localization on the Trump impeachment inquiry. I believe that the impeachment inquiry is a very timely story because it was news that broke just over a week ago and is something that continues to take-over the front page as it is now an ongoing investigation. Additionally, I believe that there is a disparity of knowledge and interest level on our campus about the impeachment that would be very fascinating to capture. I plan on interviewing lots of different students that I hope have varying opinions and interest levels about Trump impeachment inquiry. 

List of potential sources: 1) Noah Collier, head of WFU College Republicans. 2) Robert Whalpes, advisor for WFU College Republicans. 3) Lizzie Lordi, co-president of WFU College Democrats 4) Peter Siavelis, advisor for WFU College Democrats 5) Taylor Residence Hall members 6) Professors in the POL and ECN departments at WFU 7) Random students on the quad at WFU

For my first story, I am going to cover a public lecture titled, “Economic Freedom: What It Is and Why It Matters”, that is sponsored by the Economics Department on campus. The lecture features Dean Stansel, who is the creator of the first ever local index of economic freedom, which details that certain areas who have higher economic freedom tend to have better outcomes on a wide variety of measures. I want to cover his speech because I am extremely fascinated by the concept. Also, as an economics major, I feel that attending and covering the talk would broaden my knowledge of research on my field of study. I believe the speech is newsworthy because it is a new development in the field of economics. Additionally, writing a news article would allow students on campus to gain an understanding of the index, which might assist seniors as to where they will move after graduation.

For the New York Times reporter that I will be following over the course of the semester, I have chosen Keith Bradsher. He is a business and economics reporter and the Shanghai bureau chief of The New York Times. Before working for the New York Times, Keith Bradsher was the chief Hong Kong correspondent. He reported on Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia on topics ranging from economic trends to the environment. Keith Bradsher has won several awards for his reporting and was part of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of Apple and other technology companies.

I selected Keith Bradsher because of the topics he writes about as well as his style of reporting. As an economics major, I am really interested in U.S. and China relations at the economic level as well as general economic trends. I am also very fascinated by the way Keith Bradsher writes his leads. They have a little edge and persuasion to them, which I admire and want to investigate further. I am really looking forward to reading and following Keith Bradsher over the course of the semester.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/business/trump-china-tariffs.html?searchResultPosition=1 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-carrie-lam.html?searchResultPosition=2