For this story, I would like to focus on how sustainability is applied in every discipline on Wake Forest’s Campus. One of the future goals of sustainability efforts on campus is to reach students irrespective of their major in order to help both students and faculty understand sustainability through various academic lenses.

I would like to interview key players in the Office of Sustainability such as Professor Johnston as well as students and faculty who integrate the concept of sustainability into their education, regardless of expertise.

If this topic seems too broad, I have a few other ideas I can work with.

Lola Fadulu’s style is very straightforward and factual, but she also keeps the reader interested by adding subtle emotional appeal and strong direct quotes. From the stories I have read, Fadulu’s leads are effective and informative and also address the “what” of the story, whether that be housing, homelessness, or food stamps. She sets up why the topic is relevant and also uses anecdotal leads to humanize controversial topics. 

Her endings include hard-hitting personal quotes and implications of upcoming rulings when she is discussing legal matters. She is very good at adding empathy to her stories without inserting her opinion, which is something I need to work on. I would also like to mirror her technique of including intentional statistics. Most of her stories are short, but she communicates the message of her topics in impactful ways.

For my first story, I will be attending and reporting on “A Conversation with Benjamin Crump” at 6:00 pm in Pugh Auditorium in Benson University Center this upcoming Wednesday(2/12). Benjamin Crump has represented clients and played a role in cases such as the Trayvon Martin case with the intention of pursuing justice and proving that the Constitution applies to every echelon of American society. I am interested in this event because I would like to learn more about how marginalized Americans face the criminal justice system and the difficulties that arise through this process. There are also cases such as those of Jannie Ligons and Robbie Tolan which I would like to be more familiar with given that I only have previous knowledge of the Trayvon Martin case.

Lola Fadulu is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times who covers poverty and social policy. She graduated from Amherst College in 2017 with a BA in Philosophy.

I would like to follow this reporter because I am interested in social issues such as poverty and how they affect marginalized Americans. These are issues I would like to know more about given our current president who plans on cutting back or reversing many measures set in place by Obama to benefit the poor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/us/politics/trumps-food-stamp-cuts.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/trump-housing-segregation.html?searchResultPosition=5