Interview and the rough draft of your data story
For this assignment, you will cover a data story, which is a news story with numbers or statistics. You will find your primary source and conduct an interview. This week you will submit the transcripts of the interview and the rough draft of your article. Please remember it is just the rough draft, so you can submit all of the information you have gathered to receive a full credit for your work. You will find the guidelines for your data story in Week 12 folder, but you don't have to adhere to them for your rough draft unless you prefer to do so.

Write a story of 700 words based on the information from the census or any other resource with numbers, polls, statistics, election results and any kind of data following the guidelines below:

1. Inverted pyramid style

2. Proper lead
3. Proper headline
4. AP style, correct grammar and punctuation
5. Only factual information
6. Short and concise
7. Based on data
8. Include some background information
9. Include a video of your interview (you completed it two weeks ago)
10. Include quotes from your primary source in your article (you completed it two weeks ago)
11. Include a visualization (you completed it last week)

Example of a data story:
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/01/09/794851835/for-some-d-c-parents-it-s-too-expensive-to-work

Write a news blog No. 1 discussing 3 news stories you have learned about this week (300 words). There should be one news story on politics, one - on health, one - on a topic of your choice. In the post describe each news story (50 words per a news story) and explain its importance to you and the society (50 words each). Submit a copy of your blog post on Moodle (1 point) with a link to your post. The blog post should include links to the original news stories.