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Week 13 Newswriting

On Wednesday, Bernie Sanders officially dropped out of the presidential race. This will establish former Vice President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic candidate. Bernie plans on remaining on the ballot for states who still have primaries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html 

Retail has been one of the most impacted industries with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In one week, overall E-commerce sales rose by over 14%. But how will this pandemic affect consumers after it's over? https://www.retaildive.com/news/the-consumer-after-covid-19/575634/

New York City announced to teachers to stop using the platform “Zoom” for their online classes.
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-04-07/new-york-city-tells-teachers-to-stop-using-zoom-for-distance-learning The FBI issued a statement warning educators about the security risks. Cases of hijacking and inappropriate interactions with young students have happened.

Scientists have found new evidence that there is a link between human exploitation of nature and virus outbreaks. Diseases that are found in animals are only transmitted to humans because of human interruption. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52204724

To be honest, I thought this assignment was going to be a lot easier than it was. Writing less than 280 characters doesn’t seem like it would be difficult, but it’s not easy to try and summarize an article and make someone want to read it with a character limit. It was challenging to try and summarize the environmental article specifically because there are a lot of facts in the article that are important. Compared to this, the retail/fashion article wasn’t as hard to write a tweet about because I’m aware of what’s going on in retail right now.

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