Reducing Violent Crime in American Cities-Your interview must be with someone who is in a position to talk authoritatively about an issue of your choosing that is closely related to Story 2’s topic (see below), hate crime statistics. The person or persons you interview must be a community leader, activist, law enforcement official, or other local, state, or national authority on your topic.

Your story should be 250-300 words and must be enhanced for online publication.

Enhancing Your Story for Social Media

You must include online enhancements with this sidebar, like some of the “live” newsfeed things that you saw in our course readings journalists are doing now while they’re covering stories, such as tweeting factoids, Snapchat commentary, Instagram photos from their interview, posting crime data to Pinterest, texting, and other tools like these to gather and disseminate information from and for your story. If you tweet with an appropriate hashtag, you might get tweets back that you could use in your story!

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