https://spark.adobe.com/page/frvnHeRe3Z74G/

I’d like to do my second story as a localization about recent hate speech and defamation. A pressing issue in the past few years, hate speech had increased by 17 percent from 2016 to 2017, and even more the last year in 2018, according to the New York Times. The same piece reported that nearly three out of five crime reports were racially or ethnically motivated. This seems especially salient given hate emails sent to campus recently.

I’d like to interview the head of the Sociology Department, who was sent the emails, sociology majors, and other non-affected Wake students to see the difference in apprehension maybe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/hate-crimes-fbi-2017.amp.html

I’m interested in covering “The Last Lecture Series” this week, a semesterly event hosted by Student Union. Each semester, they invite a faculty member to present on a topic of their choice, and the chosen speaker this fall is Dr. Mir Yarfitz of the History Department. He will be speaking about the history of fraternity masculinity, which seems controversial and newsworthy considering tensions and myriad events on campus over the past two years.

I want to write about this lecture, because I’m interested in both the history of fraternity culture and what the student reaction might be. Whether Dr. Yarfitz will address Wake history and/or present-day implications is a mystery to me; but, that the lecture is hosted by Student Union might suggest that its intended audience is campus-wide and could address the student body in some way.

I chose to follow Michael Crowley, because his focus on Trump’s foreign policy seems to be a difficult section to dissect cogently. From one foreign policy issue to another, the president’s unorthodox inclinations appear challenging to report succinctly.

Michael Crowley is a White House correspondent in the Washington bureau. He was previously Politico’s White House and national security editor as well as their senior foreign affairs correspondent.