ASSIGNMENT ONE: PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW Name Diana Lu Mobile phone 85269272134 Email yujialu2@student.cityu.edu.hk Add photo here: Personal Web page Blog address Survey: Career goal: What do you want your job to be in 20 years? manager in a froeign services of all kinds of media in Shanghai In 5 years? employee or a journalist When you graduate? a employee in a company related to media Are you interested in a career in journalism? yes How can this course help you reach your goals? I Writing news is not only a must skill for journalists and editors, rather, all kinds of work related to media need this. The very clear and logic way of telling a truth can also help us in a lot of circumstances, like writing a yearly report. Goals for this course: Are you interested in producing for this course: Podcasts? Yes Video segments for YouTube?Yes Newspaper or wire stories?Yes A Blog?Yes A regular news broadcast?Yes Guests: Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?Yes Experience: Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media. I worked in the TV station in my hometown as an intern reporter and got to know how to produce the very basic news and editing. How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible) Not at this school I'm afraid. Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list. Editing, anchoring. News Habits: Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?Phoenix Tv, CNN How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Actually not so familiar. Can you watch them at home? It's a pity, I can't. Over the Internet? Yes, sure, I get all those inofrmation from the Internet. Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts. strength:Efficiency, high trasparence,many sources, high-quality news worker, and their dominance in the media world, I mean, mainly refer to America. Weakness:They sometimes want to cover a story with very little budget, and this will definitely affect the quality of the reports. And their reports, because they always claim to be true and reliable, sometimes will mislead the viewers. What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly? New York Times. Sometimes New Yorker. Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? I read New York Times, but will start to read Washington Post tomorrow. ASSIGNMENT TWO Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.

UN Envoy Meets Myanmar Democracy Leader Envoys from UN tried to see the leaders of the Myanmar military government, trying to persuade them to ease the crackdown on the protesting public, but fail to see the two top leaders. The Protest in Burma has lasted almost a month and several demonstrating monks and public have been killed and some are areested. Rangoon and Mandalay has implemented a curfew and no protesting parade is allowed to apppear in the streets in the daytime since Sep.25. The protest this time in Burma is caused by the rising of prices and is widely regarded as a manifest of the public dissatisfaction towards the military government.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

A happy old lady, Diana Lu, went to see her beloved ones in the heaven on Sep.23 2077, three monthes after her 90th birthday.
She has been a celebrity in the 3oth and 50th of the 21 century, though she herself would rather prefer not to mention this, but still these parts can not be easily skipped.
She had a very happy childhood with her parents' care and keen friendship from her friends, it was then she developed a sunny personality, which she benefited from so much in her later years.
After four years of study of Journalism in University, she wanted to experience the real life and be the one who informs the world what's happening every day. She became an outposted journalist for New York Times. During her touring around the world, she had a particular sympathy towards the civilians in the war-torn area like Iraq and Palestine, so she spent two years there reporting the people rebuilding their homes and calling the international community to help these people. She could have won a Pulitzer Price but she refused to give up her Chinese nationality but still what she had done earned her a Nobel Peace Price.
However, what she treasured most is still her family and her biggest wish is to give love to as many people as possible.
"My mom is a great woman, she persued love bravely and had a well of love in her own heart which will never dry. We are so proud of her." Her older daughter said.
"She paved us a green road in the Middle East, although just a beginning, but that encourages us to go on making it a garden. We all wish her happy hereafter." said Thomas Spitzer,( Spitzer is one of the most prominent journalists then in reporting International News, especially in the Middle East)
Lu will be burried on 26 Sep., just beside her beloved husband. Wish her still be a loving angel in the heaven.


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.




Assignment 5 Due Sat .Sept 22.

Please read the Washington Post pig disease story.


Please evaluate the story in terms of fairness and bias, focusing on how the story is sourced.


Firstly, we have to admit that the reporter doesn't ignor the improvements that Chinese governments have made. From the SARS to the Pig Disease, the transparence of the Chinese government's releasing the information has improved a lot.
However, bias can still be seen in the report.
1. in the report, many things are ralted to the U.S., but the writer claims it to be a world problem, does the U.S. stand for the whole world? It's still an American perspective.

2.Same animal disease has broken out in Europe before but rarely have news reporting that all other countries are urging this country to provide the tissue sample for a co-research? Is this also a kind of bias?

3.In the first part the writer mentioned that it was the pig disease that made pork prices soar in the last year and also push the inflation rate to the highest level. But, both the price mechanism and the inflation rates are complicated issues, how can it be soly affected by the pig disease?

4. About the sources.
I have to admit that some of the sources like Juan Lubroth or Vincent Martin are quite authoritative, but what do they know about the pig disease situation in China, in the small villages far away from the Eastern developed areas, when they themselves are so far away as in Rome or, a little bit nearer, in Beijing?
The opinions of individual professors or experts like Zhu Guoqiang are especially worth noticing, They may give their own understandings, but that's not a general idea. Besides we don't know the incentive, since Amrican journalists has a keen interest in interviewing Chinese people, especially intellects, who harbour an atigovernment attitude as their sources.
Another source which seems to be quite credibleb is the paper published in PLoS ONE. The journal itself is not quite so famous, and it's just a paper, we know many papers that are proved to be incorrect, this can not be a 100 percent sure source either.
Lastly, the farmers that the writer mentioned all live in Foshan, so trivial compared to the whole country. If she wants to describe the terrible situation all over China, isn't it better for her to go to more places and get the first-hand statistics or at least experience rather than citing those governmental statistics that she repeatedly described as not accurate?

My Qustions:
1. Is the writer a reporter always writes reports on China or a reporter writes on animal disease?
2 Has she written any animal disease before this?























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