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six discussion questions, 300 words each, no citation needed1. For your response to Orchid Fever consider:What reporting techniques Orlean uses to craft her story and what sources she relies on.Whether or not Orlean relies too heavily on Laroche (as a character and a source) and some of the ways she seeks to create some distance between her reporting and his version of events.What “why” question or questions Orlean poses through the article and how she manages to answer them (or doesn’t).Anything else you found interesting, off-putting, exciting, etc.2. Consider the following in your response to The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth:The use of Bloomstein’s story as a means to explore a surprising statistic about maternal mortality.The balance between personal/anecdotal narratives and data journalism, and how these are woven together throughout the story. What sources and methods Martin and Montagne used in reporting the piece and the ways they got around impediments surrounding medical privacy laws and policies in their reporting.Or anything else you found interesting or surprising.3. The Thin Blue LineTo watch the film, you can head here to the Criterion Channel and sign in using [email protected] as your email address and JR471P@ss as your password. You can find the film either by searching for it once logged in or finding in the “my list” section.In addition to the discussion openers from Mackenzie and Leah, I’m asking you to consider some of the following as you watch The Thin Blue Line:Morris’s use of interviews to drive the narrative of the documentary. The inclusion of “reenactments” of the crime at the center of the story and, more broadly, the wa

ys in which this documentary is and is not a work of journalism.What sources and materials Morris gathered to make the case for Adam’s innocence and how he may have obtained them.Anything else you found interesting or surprising.4. consider the following for your response to An Unbelievable Story of Rape:How the story makes use of many small, seemingly innocuous details gathered by the journalists in the course of their reporting.Whether the layered narratives of two police investigations that took place at different times, one well executed and the other bungled, works to give the story momentum or slows it down.How the reporters handled a highly sensitive story and reporting topic.What kind of reporting, interviews, and documents went into telling this story.Anything else you found interesting, surprising, annoying, well done, poorly executed, etc.5. consider the following in your response to Firestone and the Warlord (fixed link):The use of public records and documents in this story.How the documentary weights the voices of various sources (Americans working for Firestone, Liberians). Whether this was properly calibrated.Or anything else you found interesting or surprising.6. In addition to the discussion openers from Karina and Esther, consider for your response to How the Elderly Lose Their Rights, (PDFActions):The scope of the story: is this a local story? A national one? Anecdotal or systemic?How Aviv works around a lack of records that would make clear the number of similar cases nationwide.The role of institutions in the story: the courts, local and state authorities.What sources and documents Aviv relied on to tell the story.Or anything else you found interesting or surprising.