Evaluation of New York Times Stories

This week in the New York Times, I focused on two stories. The first, Panel Calls for Depression Screenings During and After Pregnancy, in the Health section focuses on screening women for depression through pregnancy to help reduce risk for depression after pregnancy or to pass their depression onto their child. The second story, Twitter Recruits a Chief Marketing Officer From American Express, in the Tech section, talks about how Twitter continues to reshape its top ranks under Jack Dorsey to help Twitter stop falling.

Health

1. The main character of the article is a woman named Marissa Mead from Dalles, Oregon. The New York Times uses Marissa as an example to show the need for screening women for mental diseases. Shortly after giving birth to her first child, Marissa developed postmortem depression and when she had her second son, her symptoms got much worse. The New York Times uses Marissa to bring a personal story to the article to help connect people to the problem and make them think more about the need for screening women during pregnancy.

2. This article focuses on getting women all over the united states screened. The location of the panel that called for the screenings isn't stated, however they do say that New York has laws that encourage screenings for mental illnesses and New Jersey is the only state that requires screening. Marissa Mead's story takes place in Oregon and another women who is briefly mentioned at the end, Jenna Berendzen, is from Iowa. 

3. There isn't really any debate in this story. Most hospitals don't have the time or the funding to provide screening for all pregnant woman, and not everyone thinks this should be mandatory. However, this article just states that pregnant women should be screened for depression to help find them an effective treatment for their depression before they give birth and it escalates. The women who are interviewed mostly tell their story about how they became severely depressed after giving brith and wished they could have found a treatment sooner. 

Tech

1. This article focuses on Twitter's new addition to their team.  Twitter has announced that it has made Leslie Berland chief marketing officer. This story is all about her and how she got to Twitter. Leslie was and executive at American Express and was involved in marketing and advertising. 

2. The setting is the world of Twitter. This article tells about it's new member, Leslie Berland, and how she has come to Twitter in its time of distress. She is there to help Twitter get back on their feet.

3. For this article as well, there isn't really anything controversial going on. Leslie Berland was appointed as chief marketing officer because they need to do some serious revamping to help Twitter's stocks from falling any further. 

Eldh, Andreas. "The Twitter Bird" 6/20/2011 via Flickr

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