As I wrap up my final day of news reporting, I found the key pieces of today revolved around the impending coronavirus infections. This has had a major impact on the stock market in the United States and President Trumps response. This seems to be the main headlines surrounding this Friday evening. Both articles are extremely prevalent to the current disasters and questions of the world. Each takes an approach of narrative combined with fact checking, as well as, allowing the inverted triangle to take precedence in their stories.

The first article trending is around the infectious ability of the Coronavirus. A patient’s dog has tested positive according to People. This is causing concern over the capabilities of the virus and whether the animal could have caught it or if this was a contamination issue. This piece continued on explaining the new patients that have occurred, including in the United States where someone who has had no exposure prior has contracted the disease. They then went on to explain San Francisco’s state of emergency in recognition of impending outbreak. This journalist did a good job of approaching the facts and explaining clearly what was and was not known. They showed the conversation through other outlets as well and created a space for conversation. This information was mined out amongst the frenzy and false reporting of the cornavirus in recent media.

Continuing the coronavirus theme, briefings have been springing up throughout the United States, but especially regarding the Trump administration. Democrats reported have called out Trump’s administration on their handling of these cases and the preparations. Politico discussed the questions of the handling of the coronavirus issues and how the administration has responded. It also showed the response of other lawmakers and their feelings towards the administration. This allowed for a similar inverted triangle of initial straight information followed by a deeper picture of what was going on. There was many conversations started and information mined out for this platform to allow users to come to further understanding.

Today’s news had a turn of events as things are amping up with the corona virus, an anti-lynching law is finally passed, and as per usual a variety of celebrity gossip.

In wake of the spread of the Corona Virus, the United States has been in decision over who to place as the coronavirus chief. President Trump has since decided to place Vice President Mike Pence as the chief overseeing this. Due to recent spread, the need for a head has become even more apparent. This article broke down the reasons of consideration for the chief, such as the wider spread of it all. Currently Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services Secretary is leading this charge. On top of this, Congress is considering a larger budget toward public health crisis management, which would be the first time for their greater involvement. Recently as well, the DOW has experienced a major drop due to the spreading virus around the world. One big discussion as well looks at the spending of the US on various medicines and the overall budget. A lot of the information gained here was from various tweets, press conferences, and information gather from other sources into the melting pot of the story. It was approached in a sort of narrative style stating facts, but giving a timeline to it. In concern to the roles of journalism, one major one applied here was the role of data miner. They had a solid variety of sources and evidence, while also mining through to find legitimate data and what exactly is going on.

A new anti-lynching bill has finally been passed after 150 years of attempts at this law. The bill is called the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill. The article, written by the New York Times, does a great job of incorporating other sources and applying a variety of ideas. It does a great job of showing the spread of views and facts on this topic. Through explaining both the Emmett Till story and the background of lynching stories, the reader is able to understand a broader importance of this bill passing. There’s also understanding of where the fight has gone and how this point has come about. They do a really great job of also giving a variety of sources with the quotes as well.

That’s a wrap folks, until next time.