Social Media Reacts to Orlando Shooting
After the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., people took to social media to share messages of grief, love and hope.
By NICOLE FINEMAN and AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER on Publish Date June 13, 2016. Photo by Heather Leiphart/The Panama City News Herald, via Associated Press.
Our Seventh Annual Summer Reading Contest begins!
To participate, just post a comment here by 7 a.m. Eastern on June 24 and answer the questions, “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
Maybe the only thing on your mind has been Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando. Tell us what aspect of the news and its repercussions, or what particular article, Op-Ed, photo, video or graphic, has most captured your attention, and why. (To find many free links to related Times pieces, you might visit our collection of resources.)
Or, maybe you want to write about other things going on around the nation and the world — from the “Brexit” to doping at the Olympics, the N.B.A. finals, the undocumented valedictorians in Texas, or the Stanford rape case.
Or maybe your focus has been on the Times’s Trending lists, where in recent weeks you could find this piece about how exercise can help the brain grow stronger, this one about how one of the oldest forms of punctuation may be dying because millennials aren’t using it, or this one about the Mister Softee turf war in New York City:
The Hard Side of Selling Soft Treats
When it gets hot in New York, ice cream trucks hit the pavement, often competing fiercely for coveted street corners. Follow Ricardo Cruz, one of Mister Softee’s 350 drivers, on a sunny day in the city.
By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER and JACQUELINE BAYLON on Publish Date May 30, 2016. Photo by Michael Nagle for The New York Times.Need more details? The contest rules are all here, and you can read the work of last year’s winners here. A quick overview, though:
- You can choose from anything published in the print paper or on NYTimes.com in 2016, including videos, graphics and photographs. (In your response, please include the URL or headline of the piece you pick.)
- We’ll post this same Student Opinion question each Friday from today through Aug. 19, and you’ll have until the next Friday morning to post your picks. Then we’ll close that Student Opinion post and open a new one with the same question.
- We’ll choose at least one favorite answer to feature on the blog each week. Winners from this week will be announced on July 5.
- Feel free to participate each week, but we allow only one submission per person per week.
- The contest is open to students ages 13 to 19 from anywhere in the world.
Please see our Summer Calendar for more information about our June, July and August schedule. And while this is the only Student Opinion question we’ll be asking this summer, here are 192 questions from the school year, all still open to comment.