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If a house catches fire, someone hazes, dies or a student wins a prestigious honor (and happens to be a GLO member), that's newsworthy. I would also say if a GLO raised an extremely large sum of money for a charity (I'm taking $100K or more), then yes, print.
An "undercover" rush story, a fluffy blurb about finding "sisterhood" or that XYZ hosted a slumber party jammy-jam and donated $3K to a local hospital-- that's a big yawn and it has been done to death.
The diversity story would have merit as a human interest piece if the reporter had actually done some digging.
News needs to pass a SO WHAT, WHO CARES test. I think there is a lot of reporting right now that starts off with a good idea, and then goes to a lazy reporter who doesn't really do the work-- he just "writes pretty." Journalists are the independent watchdogs of society-- this story was very weak, in my opinion.
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