Choose a news story told using one of the media types we have discussed—print, television, or online—and rework it to fit a different type of media. For example: You might choose a podcast that covers a news story and transform that story that is told into a newspaper or magazine article—or you might do the reverse! Your task here is to keep the basics of the story intact, but to adapt it to the standards of the new type of media. If you are moving from a 30-minute podcast to a 250-word newspaper article, you’re obviously going to need to decide what is most important and how to tell the story effectively. Submit the original story and your revised version, which should be no longer than 300 words or two minutes (if it’s a recording, please also consult with your instructor about the recording type you should use). Write a brief reflection (100 words) about what you think the biggest challenge was for you as you tried to adapt the same story to a different type of medium.

Suppose that a major city’s main thoroughfare, which is also an interstate highway, will be completely closed to traffic for two years, from january 2014 to december 2015, for reconstruction at a cost of $535 million. if the construction company were to keep the highway open for traffic during construction, the highway reconstruction project would take much longer and be more expensive. suppose that construction would take four years if the highway were kept open, at a total cost of $800 million. the state department of transportation had to make its decision in 2014, one year before the start of construction (so that the first payment was one year away). so the department of transportation had the following choices: (i) close the highway during construction, at an annual cost of $267.5 million per year for two years. (ii) keep the highway open during construction, at an annual cost of $200 million per year for four years. now suppose the interest rate is 80%. calculate the present value of the costs incurred under each plan.