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NewsDepth 2020-2021 | Episode 28


Teachers, please take a few minutes to complete the NewsDepth Season 51 Audience Survey. Each year, your input helps us improve the show.

To say thanks, we are offering three randomly selected survey participants the opportunity for an in-person or virtual visit with the NewsDepth crew during next season. To be entered, be sure to fill out your name, email, and school information. Winners will be contacted towards the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year.


In this week's episode, we learn about the 2020 census results and what they mean for Ohio. Nick explains the big count in detail in this week's  Politics on Point.

How has the pandemic impacted travel? We head to Thailand to see how less tourism is hurting their economy and see how Qatar Airlines is retrofitting their passenger planes to carry cargo instead.

Finally, hut, hut, the NFL draft is in town! We meet a defensive lineman inspiring her high school peers.


cargo (nouns) goods that are transported over air, land, or sea

census (noun) a government's official count of how many people are living in their country

tourism (noun) the industry of providing goods and services to people visiting an area away from their hometown, usually for vacation or business


We learn about passenger planes turned into cargo carriers. Now we want you to write to us:  What would you turn a school bus into?

You can use the inbox form to submit your answers. We will share some of your best letters in the next episode.


This episode we learn about the census. For this week’s poll, we're taking our own census:  What grade are you in? K-12  Click here to vote!


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