These stories are from the Interviewing and Data class, an upper-level reporting class that can be taken by both broadcast and web/print-focused students. The class takes a deeper look at two key components of news gathering – interviewing and finding stories in numbers.
Picture it, you are a first-year student in college, it is Sunday night, you are out with your friends relaxing after a stressful week of college, exams, homework, and new projects, etc. you look down at your phone and see that it is currently 11 pm. When suddenly you remember, you forgot that last test that you were supposed to take, it was worth 30% of your grade. Now the stress comes back, and you start to take deep and…
Published March 2 2023 9:15am. By: Kennedy Webb-Glenn All over the world people in the U.S. need health care to live well. They need it to stay healthy when common colds, the flu, even pandemics such as COVID come about. From season to season the environment and culture within we reside changes. Due to high inflation and high cost of living people must spend more money that they may not have. According to Pew Research Center about 83% Americans believe…
Imagine you are worried about your friend’s mental health and decide to call a hotline and ask for help. What do you anticipate as a response? Do you believe they will give you the necessary resources and equipment to help them? Or would you expect a police officer to force him into a mental health facility? “Consider the scenario in which you visit your mother and say, ‘I’m going to kill myself by slitting my wrists with a knife.’ you…
“My wife and I were watching a movie at home, and then we heard some sirens,” finance/development committee chairman Robert Runnion said. “We looked out the window, and the sky was orange.” That was the scene on Feb. 3 when a Norfolk train carrying hazardous material was traveling through East Palestine, Ohio, derailed. Runnion left his house to head into the town to do whatever he could to help. “I was talking to a few of the officers that were…
The blackout rage gallon (BORG) rose to viral fame in 2020 and has since become the Gen Z drink of choice. The BORG is a gallon jug filled with half water and half alcohol and flavored with electrolytes and caffeine mixers. Some say this is a safer approach to binge drinking, but many health and safety questions remain. One Kent State student, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being associated with binge drinking, explained how he prepares a BORG. …
The transfer portal has burst onto the scene of college football. Coaches are taking advantage of this game-changing resource, as they choose to fill out their rosters with experienced players rather than take a chance on a graduating high school player. The NCAA refers to the transfer portal as a “tool to systemically manage the transfer process from start to finish.” USA Today’s Tom Schad put it best by saying, “It’s a database.” Players put their names into a website,…
The Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals broke a viewership record for ESPN and “Monday Night Football” on Jan. 3, however, instead of a football game many of those viewers watched lifesaving CPR take place on the field. During the high-profile game, ESPN averaged 21.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen. That number jumped to 23.8 million viewers at the end of the first quarter after Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. Cardiac arrest, which…
The causes and affects of Covid-19 from the past to where we are today. The year is 2019, it is around Christmas time, a time in which people spread love and joy. News breaks that a new virus orchestrated in China was created in a laboratory, called Covid-19. Fast forward to March 2020 when the world just stops and seems like it is going to end. Government shutdowns were at their peak back in March and April of 2020. Many…
Sports betting has been in Ohio for just around 3 months when it made its debut on January 1st, 2023. And now that that’s here, the addictions will be here too. Sports betting is now easier than ever, with plenty of apps of sportsbooks available online. Ones like FanDuel, DraftKings, and Bet365 have all flooded new users in the state of Ohio. Even when you’re watching sports, every five to 10 minutes there is a sports gambling add on the…
Mental health is a highly talked about topic. From personal conversation, to a media takeover. Mental health contributes to how we feel, act, and socialize. It controls how we make decisions, and relate to others. More than 50% of people will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their life. There are a lot of stereotypes around each mental illness or disorder. Depression has been associated with laziness. Anxiety has been called cowardly. Personality disorders…