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The lead of this story is very well written, it give enough information along with the headline to know what’s going on at the world chess championships. It describes the details that led to the match that ultimately Magnus Carlsen the world chess championship.

The news values this falls under are relevancy due to how recent the championships were. It’s also relevant to us because Carlsen’s opponent was an American at the world championships playing Magnus.

Another news value this falls under is the value of is the value of this being a interesting and unique story. Not many think of the chess championships as being very popular and therefore makes it a pretty unique story.

Oldest bear at the Midland Zoo in Townsville passed away yesterday. The 16 year old polar bear was found dead in his exhibit at 7 AM, one hour after being fed. Homer was a 16 year old polar bear and the oldest polar bear at the Midland Zoo.

Zookeeper Sara Getty remembered Homer, “Homer was a very curious and playful polar bear and we will miss him terribly.”

The Zoo reports that they will be conducting a necropsy to determine cause of the death and the result will take several weeks to determine. Zoo director Chris P. Bacon, “We will do everything in our power to determine how this bear died. Animal welfare and the preservation of species are out primary goals her at the zoo.”

Two other polar bears are surviving Homer in a 9 year old male named Yukon, and a 10 year old female named McKenzie.

The Zoo also confirmed that two other animals have passed away in the past two weeks. A 10 year old female bobcat named Regina died of kidney failure, and a 6 year old giraffe named Kenya died after her neck broke due to getting her horn stuck in her stall.

My last conversation was an interview I did post game last night with Jim Sykes. We talked about his victory over the Chargers last night 76-67. I asked him numerous questions about his team’s scoring ability, his team’s unselfishness, and his team’s depth coming off the bench. It was a good interview.

https://www.si.com/nfl/photos/2015/06/30/week-life-brett-favre-1995#3

This frames Brett Favre as a hard working man that does anything and everything

It shows this by showing all his activities throughout the week and all the things he does.

It doesn’t leave out much, it shows him as a man with a lot of friends, a man that works out, and a man that shows how good of a dad he is.

Grace Russmann may look like your typical nice girl college student, she’s a trumpet player, she’s from a small town, and plans on working for an advertising firm and hopefully own her own in the future. All of this though is just a facade, as Grace revealed to me in our sit down interview, she may look nice but has the evil desires of a thousand criminals.

About a month ago Russmann was having a bad day and was looking to cheer up from the mood she was deep in. Russmann and her friend Dalton went to McDonald’s to try and cheer up Grace out of the funk she was in. As she recalls the drive thru “was super long,” because of this they went inside to order their food and pay. Behind the counter was this 14 year old innocent cashier, potentially working his first job in the restaurant industry. Dalton and Grace ordered their food and the total came to roughly $6.50, Grace gives the cashier a 10 dollar bill and expects about 3 dollars and 50 cents back in change. The cashier instead gives back $6.50 in change to Grace. Russmann seeing the opportunity to make a quick buck does not mention the mistake to the cashier and goes on her way with money that didn’t belong to her.

Russmann in our interview said that she “has no regret” for taking the money, going on to say, “this happens to everyone and so this time it was my turn to benefit from this mistake.”

Grace Russmann, your typical nice girl college student who enjoys drawing, watching Netflix, and playing Nintendo video games in her free time, also enjoys taking money knowingly from businesses and taking advantage of young helpless employees. The selfishness of Russmann is unmatched by any human being I’ve ever met.

Looking at this article from the New York Times and specifically the lead, it is very tough to figure out what the story is talking about just based on the lead. The lead does not do a good job on telling me what this story will be about. The story for all I know could just be biographical on a guy named Keith Ivey.

Looking at the rest of story you can tell it’s not a biographical, but instead is a story about the ballot measure that was passed in Florida granting felons their voting rights again. This follows the news value of the relevance due to the fact that this measure was just passed last night in the midterm elections.

Another news value this follows is the prevalence of this story in this election cycle. This story has been prevalent due to the fact that 1.5 million Americans with felonies in Florida are getting their voting rights restored and the fact that this could change the political landscape in Florida for decades to come and could have major implications already in 2020.