ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Adam Zhu (Zhu Xudong)
Mobile phone 13466548076
Email adamzhu1986[*at*]gmail.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page
Not yet
Blog address
Not yet
Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
A job that can provide me ENOUGH money for my family and never work at weekends.
In 5 years?
A job that I can learn while working.
When you graduate?
Just don't be out of job.
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
To some extent.
How can this course help you reach your goals?
Let me know more about how journalists work.

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?
Yes, esp. a podcast that can submit to iTunes.
Video segments for YouTube?
Yes, but I guess that may be a little bit too difficult.
Newspaper or wire stories?
Yes.
A Blog?
Yes and that's the most possible thing can be done.
A regular news broadcast?
That depends.

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Yes, of course. What about Eric Schmidt(Google), Bill Gates(Microsoft) and Steve Jobs(Apple)? Well, just joking. But I admire them sooooooo much!

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
Not yet.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
Not yet.

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
I'm afraid I don't.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
Seldom watch TV at school because I don't have a TV set in my dorm. But I watch Sports News (6:00pm CCTV5) regularly at home.
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Sometimes I download video news podcasts from iTunes like ABC World News, The CNN Daily, BBC Breakfast Takeaway.
Not possible to watch it at home.
The internet connceting speed sucks.
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Well, I'm not familiar with that.
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Newspaper: Titan Weekly (A sports newspaper)
Webs: news.baidu.com
(I subscribed some news feeds with Google Reader, but I don't really read every piece. Usually I just glance the headlines.)
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
Sometime I visit New York Times and USAToday's website, but only sometimes frankly.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.

Palestinian foreign minister has dismissed an Arab peace initiative.
He has told the Associated Press in Beijing that is an impractial initiative.
China supports the Arab initiative. It calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

Today, we are here to announce the death of Adam Zhu - our greatest athlete and pioneer in harmony process. He passed away peacefully in his office at seventy-five this afternoon.

Now let's look some highlights of his legendary life.

Adam was born in a small town in 1986. He showed his talent for sports at early age and joined the NBA at 18. He played for Indiana Pacers for 15 years and helped the team won 12 NBA Champions. He averaged 36.9 points and 14.6 assists per game. With his help the Chinese basketball team won the champion of the Beijing Olympic Games.

When retired, Adam turned to football and became the coach of China's national team. In the 2020 World Cup held in China, his team beat Brazil in the final and won the champion for the first time.

However, Adam is far more than a legend in sports, he is also a pioneer in harmony process.

Because his extraordinary performance in sports, Adam was appointed harmony ambassador by the Chinese government and sent to Japan. After 5 years' negotiation, Japan apologized sincerely to Asian countries for the World War Ⅱ. Their leaders promised never to pray at Yasukuni Shrine any more.

Then Adam traveled around the world and helped the poor and needed. He spent 7 years in Afghanistan and made the Al Qaeda give up terrorism. He helped Palestine established a country alongside Israel and made the two countries good neighbors.

Later Adam worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency. They persuaded all the countries naturalized their atomic bombs and helped many countries peacefully use atomic energy.

During his last few years, Adam was still working hard at environmental protection.

His wife received his call last night, he said he was tired. This morning, we found him at his desk. It seems he died in a nap.

May he rest in peace.


ASSIGNMENT FOUR
Write three pitches that you and some classmates can actually produce with the time and resources available to you.

The audience will be English speaking You Tube viewers. Your pitch should offer them something they cannot see elsewhere. This means slice of life and human interest stories are OK, but try to come up with some hard issue pieces or stories related to breaking news as well. Foreigners love to hear about: The Olympics, counterfeit or dangerous products, the environment and global warming, martial arts, student trends, China's economy, interesting tourist destinations, and anything unusual or surprising. Think about a story you would like to hear about in another country, and try it here.

Also think about the big stories in the world, and look for a Chinese connection. Are there Iraqi students here? Does China have an Islamic insurgency? What do Chinese students think about the US presidential race? Who is in charge at the Palestian Embassy here now that the Palestinians have split amid civil war?

Your pitch should include the names of the people you plan to interview, and the shots you plan to include.

PITCHES:
1,
Sensorship in China.
In China, a lot of books or movies can't be published due to sensorship. And a lot of websites are filtered or can't be open when a person views them in China. It sounds terrible and due to this, many westerners think China is far from a democratic country. However, is it ture? How Chinese people think of this?

People to interview: Classmate, both local and overseas. Some teachers who are teaching international journalism (if it's possible to do that.) Foreigners.

Shots: Interviews, and some books which were fobidden to publish before but get published now and books which still can't be published. The differences of a same websites viewed from China or oversea, espeically some search engines when people search certain words such Tiananmen and Mao.

2,
Tourist destinations in Beijing (or in China if possible). More and more people are coming to China for holiday and still, there are more and more people are planning to come to China. Therefore, a video introducing tour destination in China should catch westerners eyes.

People to interview: Classmates, random citizens, toursits from oversea and other places in China, tour guides.

Shots: Beautiful tour destinations.

3,
What Chinese youth are doing or youth fashion. Tell foreigners what the young people are interested currently. This may attracts young people of other countries and most viewers on Youtube are young people.

People: Different young people from 16-30.

Shots: Activities young people are taking.

ASSIGNMENT FIVE
I think all the sources the writer provided is true and can be trusted, but there are still bias in choosing which sources to use. I mean, the write must have gathered many sources for this feature, and then she chose some to use in the feature and left some out. In the process of choosing sources, I think there are biases.

In this feature, she wants to tell people that the Chinese Government are not performing functionally in this pig disease issue. Therefore, she only chose the souces that support what she wanted to express.

Since it's a American newspaper, I can understand why she chose those sources, but on the other hand, I think she should be more objective. First of all, she should see how the Chinese Government try to stop the disease it's effort in controlling the pork price. Secondly, most Chinese citizen are quite satisfied with the government's effort in this issue. The poor can get allowance to buy meat and if the price is too high in some area, the government will bring more pork there to get the price down. Thirdly, in the university, the price of food (including meat and vegetables) is the same as before. So the government is doing a great job in fighting with the pig disease and it's well under control now.

All in all, I think the writer wrote a feature and put the blame on the Chinese Government. Though the Chinese Government should shoulder the responsbility, it's not they are doing nothing or slowing in solving the problem.

Question I want to ask her:
1, How she gets all the imformation, through the internet or from other newpapers or elsewhere? I can't get half of these imformation myself. I think she is really good at this which I want to learn from her very much.
2, How mang sources she gets are in English and how many are in Chinese?
3, Does she live in China when she wrote the feature?
4, Have she really talked to or interviewed the Chinese pig farmers directly?



THESE ARE GOOD QUESTIONS. LETS SEND THEM TO THE REPORTER.

HOWEVER, I THINK YOUR CRITICISM OF HER FOR CHOOSING SELECTIVE SOURCES NEEDS EXAMPLES.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE MENTALITY BEHIND THE STATEMENT "Since it's a American newspaper, I can understand why she chose those sources." DOES THIS MEAN THAT AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS ARE AGAINST CHINA, OR THAT AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS DON'T TRY TO BE FAIR?

ALSO, I'M NOT SURE WHY YOU THINK SHE SHOULD MENTION THE CHINESE GOVERNMENTS SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS TO CONTROL PRICES. SHE IS WRITING ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMUNITIES FRUSTRATION AND CONCERN OVER THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S UNWILLINGNESS TO SHARE SCIENTIFIC DATA -- SOMETHING THAT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.

YOU SEEM TO EQUATE CRITICIZING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WITH BIAS. BIAS INCLUDES THE IDEA OF BEING UNFAIR. DOES THIS MEAN THAT ANY CRITICISM OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT POLICY IS UNFAIR?