{"id":226023,"date":"2018-09-17T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/jrn-415-week-3-researching-government-websites\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:00:18","slug":"jrn-415-week-3-researching-government-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/jrn-415-week-3-researching-government-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"JRN 415 Week 3 Researching Government Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researching Government Websites. Select one of the following exercises to complete. Explain the information you found and explain how you found it.\t1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You are a business reporter and hear that the largest employer in your town is going to lay off one-third of its employees. You need to find background on the company&#8217;s financial status. Find the latest 10-K filings for a large public company in your area. Use the EDGAR database from\u00a0Filings &#038; Forms. (Paul &#038; Hansen, 2007, p. 98).\t2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a story on an &#8220;English-only&#8221;\ufffd referendum being proposed, you want to add information about the demographics of your county, particularly the Hispanic population. Search for population statistics for your county at the\u00a0U.S. Census Bureau. (Paul &#038; Hansen, 2007, 98).\t3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In covering a story about domestic violence in Florida, a police officer tells you that the hot weather months are the worst &#8220;\ufffd there is a jump in cases in July. Verify the accuracy of the statement by checking the\u00a0Florida Department of Children and Families. (Paul &#038; Hansen, 2007, p. 98).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researching Government Websites. Select one of the following exercises to complete. Explain the information you found and explain how you found it. 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You are a business reporter and hear that the largest employer in your town is going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/jrn-415-week-3-researching-government-websites\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}