The relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce has brought a whole new audience to all NFL football streaming services. Taylor Swift attended the Bear-Chiefs game on September 24. The game was the most watched telecast on any network for the week. Additionally, the audience consisted of a strong female base. On October 1, the Kansas City Chiefs played the New York Jets. The game was not predicted to have many viewers. However, yet again, the games had a lot more viewers than predicted. Taylor Swift was at the game again. Many networks are contributing a lot of their screen time on Taylor Swift.

Overall, the article was written well. The NFL as a whole and the streaming services are being affected dramatically because of a relationship between two famous people. The lead of the article was okay. In my opinion, it could have been stronger. I think this is such a crazy thing so the lead could have been more interesting. It did not mention anything about Taylor Swift, which this is what the article is mainly about. However, the structure of the article was well-written. The most important information was portrayed at the top. I enjoyed reading this article a lot and am excited to see the impact this relationship will continue to have.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/arts/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-chiefs-nbc.html?searchResultPosition=3

As gas prices are increasing, students at Morningside University are being adversely impacted. 

Gas prices increased in August. The students who commute from home are paying a lot more for gas than what they were originally planning. Not only does it affect students who commute, but it also affects those living on campus. Students travel to sporting events off campus, run the weekly groceries, and go back to visit home. 

Madison Craighead is on her second year at Morningside University. She lived in the dorms her first year. After figuring out the dorms were not best for her, she decided that living back at home would be best for her. Madison and her family lives about 15 minutes from campus. 

Madison is very fortunate with her class schedule. Every day her classes are back-to-back, so she only has to make one trip for classes. On average, she takes about 1 to 2 trips from her house to campus. 

“I am very lucky my class schedule is the way it is. Every day my classes are back-to-back right away in the morning. I go to class, then I go back home. However, basketball is starting up and I am student coach. I will have to make an extra trip back to campus for practice and games later in the day.” Madison comments.

Ellie Woelber is also a student at Morningside University that decided to commute from home this school year. However, her drive is even farther than Madison’s. Ellie lives with her family in Boyden, Iowa, which is just over an hour away from the school. 

As of October 5, the national average gas price is $3.768 per gallon. Despite the high gas prices, Ellie does not regret deciding to live at home. 

“Yeah, the gas prices may be high and affecting my bank account, but I am still happy with my decision.” Ellie states. “My overall well-being is so much better being at home. I do not regret my decision. I knew gas was going to be a big expense going into the school year, but I did not think it was going to be this much of an expense.”

On the other hand, Alex Godfredsen is a student at Morningside University who lives on campus. Alex is from Rock Valley, Iowa, an hour north of Sioux City. He is part of the baseball team. Since baseball takes up a lot of time and he is busy with classes, he does not have a job during the school year. 

Morningside University does not have a baseball field on campus, so he must travel to practice every day. The baseball complex is about ten minutes from campus, so he is driving an average of twenty minutes every day just for baseball. Although it does not seem that far, it does add up. The twenty minutes also does not include running errands and other things he has to travel to.

Alex also loves spending time with his family. One of the reasons he picked Morningside University was the distance it was to home. He enjoys going home to see his family throughout the semester.

Along with Ellie and Madison, the increased gas prices as affected Alex greatly. 

“From running my weekly errands to going to baseball to go back home, I go through a lot of gas. Every time I fill up my tank it is about 60 dollars. It makes me not want to go home as much.” Alex said. “I also have cut back on doing fun things. For example, my friends and I enjoyed going to Sioux Falls or Omaha for fun, and we do not do that as much because of the high gas prices.”

However, Alex is happy he only must drive an hour to go back home. There are some students who are hours away or even overseas. 

Thomas Ritchie went from journalism to digital corporate social media at a trucking insurance company. The changing of journalism has made the transition easier.

Thomas Ritchie is from Waterloo, Iowa. He went to a small private college in Yankton, South Dakota. He was an adjunct professor at Morningside College, now Morningside University. Thomas was in the journalism career for 25 years.

Journalism has not been the same from when he first started his career. The demand for journalism has started to decline over the years. At the time he made the decision, he was working at the Sioux City Journal. The leadership at the Sioux City Journal was declining. 

Thomas designed websites as a side hustle, which soon led to more than just a side hustle. More people started to ask him to create content. This increase caused Thomas to start his own social media company. He made this shift because he was able to be his own boss and saw more of an opportunity. Thomas saw more benefits within the marketing industry. 

“I miss journalism every day.” Thomas added. 

Thomas now works in digital social media at Great West Casualty, a trucking insurance. On a day-to-day basis, Thomas focuses on social media creation, lead generation, driving people to their website, and converting those people. 

Thomas states, “My job is to get people to our website and get people to convert.” 

Many things have changed since his time at Great West Casualty. Due to Covid-19, Thomas works hybrid. He enjoys this work schedule.

“Because who wants to work in an office. That’s kind of boring.” He comments.

Thomas enjoys his time at Great West Casualty because each day looks different for him.

“It’s never the same two days in a row.” Thomas adds. 

Thomas continues to work at Great West Casualty, a place he never imagined he would be at. 

“I never expected I would be working in insurance.”

Brian Nathaniel is a senior at Morningside University. He played tennis, lacrosse, and golf in high school. He continued playing tennis and lacrosse in college. After Brian’s freshman year, he decided to just focus on lacrosse.

“Deciding to do lacrosse over tennis was one of my athletic failures because after my sophomore year, our lacrosse team was discontinued.” Brian said.

After lacrosse discontinued, Brian decided to not try tennis again and just work. He started working at Old Chicago, where he still works today.

“I was bummed about the lacrosse team discontinuing, but I really just did it to have fun. I did not take sports too seriously.”

Lawerence Faucette, age 58 of Maryland, was the second patient ever to receive a heart transplant with a genetically modified pig’s heart. Faucette has a terminal heart disease. There was no hope for other treatment options. He was rejected from all transplant programs that consist of human organs. The first patient to receive this transplant died two months after the procedure. Dr. Bartley Griffith performed the procedure. Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, designed the protocol. There was many tests done to make sure the heart was virus free. Faucette and his wife are keeping their expectation low. They just want more time together.

The article is very well-written. The lead of the article contains very sufficient information. I knew what the article was going to be about just by reading the lead. The story is very interesting as well. It is not every day that people receive a transplant with a pig’s heart. In fact, it has only happened twice. I liked how New York Times got multiple quotes from doctors, Mr. Faucette, and his wife. Overall, the article was written very well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/health/pig-heart-transplant-faucette.html

Last night at approximately 8:30 p.m., two men entered BJ’s Drug armed. One held a gun on owner, Barney Joseph Jr., and the other removed money from the cash register.

Barney Joseph Jr., age 43 and owner of BJ’s Drug, was working a typical shift when two men wearing ski masks entered the store. One of the men held a gun on Joseph, and the other removed $382.65 from the cash register. The fled in a car that was parked in the front of the store.

Joseph did not resist. His father was shot and killed during a holdup at the same store 25 years ago.

“Yes, Dad resisted, I guess. Anyway, they found him shot to death, his own gun in his hand, and a bullet in the store’s ceiling. I’d rather part with my money than my life,” Joseph said.

As homelessness rates rises in Sacramento, California, the City of Sacramento faces complaints from the people. California homelessness is the highest of any state in the country. More specifically, Sacramento has the fastest increasing homelessness rates out of the cities in California. Many people are frustrated with how the City of Sacramento have handled these high rates. Many believe that the homeless should be kept off the streets. In fact, District Attorney Thien Ho of Sacramento County filed a lawsuit for the City of Sacramento to enforce the law and keep the streets clean.

This article stood out to me because homelessness is a very controversial topic. This issue affects many people because as mentioned the rates of homelessness as increased dramatically. The article was also very well written. The lead of the article is also very good. It is filled with important information that gives the readers a good sense of what the article will be about. I enjoyed reading about this topic.

Dr. Lawrence Muzinga is an associate professor for Accounting and Business. From his time at Morningside, his favorite memory is the new hiring of the president this last year.

When asked why that was his favorite memory, he responded with “It is my favorite memory because the new president is black.” There was no further explanation on the topic.

Dr. Muzinga then became curious to why he was asked the specific question. When he was told it was for Fundamentals of Journalism. He mentioned that his daughter, Tisia, was also a journalism. Tisia is a Fox 4 News anchor out of Dallas, Texas.

“She is very good at her job because she likes to talk a lot… just like her father,” he described his daughter. Dr. Muzinga then went on to show us some videos of Tisia on the news. He is a proud father.

After talking with Dr. Lawrence Muzinga, I found Jessica Lumsden at her desk. Jessica is an Administrative Coordinator at the Business office. She is very friendly and outgoing.

“Are you looking for anything?” Jessica asked as I approached her. After stating I was looking for a creatively bent paper clip, she responded, “I have a regular paper clip, but I can bend it. I am not too creative though.”

She grabbed a paper clip from a cup and tried to bend it in a spiral. She finished with the comment, “Here. I tried my best.”

Schools and other business are questioning their policies and mandates regarding Covid-19. As Covid-19 numbers are rising, and fall is approaching they are trying to see what is best for their students and employees. Some companies have recommended their employees to work from home. Many schools and business have made it clear to students and employees that if they aren’t feeling well or are showing any symptoms to not come. A few schools throughout the country have put in temporary mask mandates or stopped classes the past few weeks due to the rise in Covid-19. However, many schools want to boost attendance rates this year, so they may be hesitant to implanting in mandates or policies that may affect those rates. The CDC recommends people who have Covid-19 to wear a mask around others for ten days or until they get two negative test results 48 hours apart.

Overall, I think this news article is written very well. The lead was very strong. It was short and to the point. It also made me want to keep on reading the news article. I also think this article is news worthy because it is very impactful. We have all been and witnessed the pandemic and know how not fun it was. It also puts CEO’s and school officials in a hard position with how they go about the rise. There is a lot of employees and students at risk here, including the students here at Morningside.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/covid-2023-mask-mandates-school-business-cd45872?mod=us-news_trendingnow_article_pos3

Pennsylvania inmate convicted for murdering his girlfriend, escaped from Chester Country Prison on August 31. 

Daniel Cavalcante was convicted two weeks prior for stabbing his girlfriend 38 times to death. He is also wanted in a homicide case in Brazil.

Bivens, deputy commissioner of operations for the Pennsylvania State Police, reported to the Wall Street Journal, “No perimeter is 100% secure, ever. I wish it had not happened.”

Cavalcante managed to sneak through a perimeter guarded by roughly 400 police law-enforcement officers. He escaped by strectching his body between two walls to climb to the prison roof. He then ran across it to scale a fence and there he was gone. 

On Saturday evening, he stole a 2020 Ford Transit fan. He found the van about three quarters of a mile from the prison, near Longwoods Garden, with the van unlocked and the keys inside of it. The stolen van was found abandoned in a field at 10:40 a.m. on Sunday. The van had run out of gas. Bivens states, “We are obviously very concerned that Cavalcante has or will attempt to steal another vehicle to facilitate his escape.” 

The fugitive traveled to a couple of acquaintances in East Pikeland and Phonexixville. Both acquaintances did not answer. At the first house he visited, survvelliance footage showed Cavalcante has changed his appearance. He was freshly shaven and was wearing a green hoodie. At the second residence, a female resident spotted the escaped inmate and called the police. 

Bivens believes that Cavalcante is seeking for support since he is trying to contact acquaintances. He told ABC news, “He is absolutely looking for support. He needs that support. He doesn’t have it.”

Law enforcements described Cavalcante as “very dangerous.” There is no proof that he has a weapon on him. However, there have been several home burglaries that are most likely tied to him. 

There have been multiple sighting of the fugitive throughout this 11-day manhunt. Most of the sightings have been in the Pocopson Township Area. Officials are mainly focused on finding Cavalcante in the area of Longwood Gardens, where he found the van. 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/escaped-convict-danelo-cavalcante-spotted-altered-appearance-pennsylvania/story?id=103064127

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/us/danelo-cavalcante-inmate-search-pennsylvania-sunday/index.html

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/crime/manhunt-persists-after-escaped-convict-danelo-cavalcante-is-spotted-overnight-c96b41e7?mod=us-news_lead_story