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From the Ted Talk by Chuck Plunkett: When local news dies, so does democracy
Unscramble the Blue Letters
In 2013, we won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Aurora theater shooting. Alden ordered that more journalists be cut. Again, and again, and again, and again. We were focred to say goodbye to talented, hardworking journalists we considered not just friends but family. Those of us left behind were stretched impossibly thin, covering muilltpe beats and writing rushed aciletrs. Inside a windowless mineteg room in March of 2018, we learned that 30 more would have to go. This pepar that once had 300 journalists would now have 70.
Open Cloze
In 2013, we won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Aurora theater shooting. Alden ordered that more journalists be cut. Again, and again, and again, and again. We were ______ to say goodbye to talented, hardworking journalists we considered not just friends but family. Those of us left behind were stretched impossibly thin, covering ________ beats and writing rushed ________. Inside a windowless _______ room in March of 2018, we learned that 30 more would have to go. This _____ that once had 300 journalists would now have 70.
Solution
- articles
- paper
- forced
- multiple
- meeting
Original Text
In 2013, we won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Aurora theater shooting. Alden ordered that more journalists be cut. Again, and again, and again, and again. We were forced to say goodbye to talented, hardworking journalists we considered not just friends but family. Those of us left behind were stretched impossibly thin, covering multiple beats and writing rushed articles. Inside a windowless meeting room in March of 2018, we learned that 30 more would have to go. This paper that once had 300 journalists would now have 70.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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local news |
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great local |
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local paper |
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local newsroom |
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big national |
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