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Newswriting Week 13

Sports Beat

Original article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/virginia-vs-texas-tech-odds-2019-national-championship-game-picks-predictions-from-model-on-11-5-run/

Tweet: 
Virginia and Texas Tech head into the 2019 NCAA National Championship game – do you have your winner picked? This model takes into consideration defense, special players, and more. To learn more about the odds of this game and the model, click here. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/virginia-vs-texas-tech-odds-2019-national-championship-game-picks-predictions-from-model-on-11-5-run/



Crime Beat

Original article: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Temple-Grad-Given-30-Months-in-Prison-for-54-Million-Green-Scam-by-Mantria-Corp-508184021.html

Tweet: 
Amanda Knorr has been charged 30 months in prison for taking part in a $54 million scheme for a supposed clean energy product “biochar”.  Read about her crime and sentence here. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Temple-Grad-Given-30-Months-in-Prison-for-54-Million-Green-Scam-by-Mantria-Corp-508184021.html. Knorr is also sentenced to 5 years parole and a $54 million restitution. 
Local Beat

Original article: https://www.kvrr.com/2019/04/07/diocese-of-fargo-places-priest-on-administrative-leave/

Tweet:
Diocese of Fargo has placed Father Katanga on administrative leave in result of a pending investigation regarding his interaction with the youth. https://www.kvrr.com/2019/04/07/diocese-of-fargo-places-priest-on-administrative-leave/No charges have been filed against Father Katanga. 


Entertainment Beat

Original article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/please-take-it-easy-r-kelly-begs-the-media-to-leave-him-alone-as-he-heads-to-downstate-illinois-to-work-at-a-party-while-free-on-bond-in-sex-abuse-case/ar-BBVGUGG

Tweet: Singer R. Kelly posts video begging the press and others to take it easy on him. R. Kelly expresses his concern as he is traveling to Illionis while facing ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and $1 million bond. Watch the video here. https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/please-take-it-easy-r-kelly-begs-the-media-to-leave-him-alone-as-he-heads-to-downstate-illinois-to-work-at-a-party-while-free-on-bond-in-sex-abuse-case/ar-BBVGUGG


Reflection:
            Coming into this assignment I thought it was going to go pretty smoothly. However, the most difficult part of this assignment for myself was the character count – specifically because the link to the article took up so many characters. I felt it was nearly impossible to fit all of the layers into the tweet. Introducing the tweet was fairly easy, but I could almost never add in an ending sentence because the link was so long. In all of the tweets I posted, I did not have enough characters to mention or link any other related stories. Finding graphics to attach with the tweet was also difficult just because I can’t really take a video off of the article and post it without having the video myself. The links being so long also made it difficult to place the link somewhere in the middle of the tweet, not the beginning or end as page 241 mentioned. 

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