ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Diana
Mobile phone 13811340483
Email spicegirl_liuliu@yahoo.com.cn

Add photo here:

Personal Web page No

Blog address No

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
To work in an IBD specialized in culture or art investment. Jobs related to VC and PE are my favorate.

In 5 years?
To participate in a formal business group and complete one or two investment or merger programs.
When you graduate?
In July, 2008.

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Not exactly.

How can this course help you reach your goals?
By practicing my English writing, listening and speaking skills.


Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts? Yes
Video segments for YouTube? No
Newspaper or wire stories? OK
A Blog? Fine
A regular news broadcast? No

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Yes, absolutely.
Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
Sorry, I have no media experiences at all.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
About ten times.

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
Using some recording softwares such as Audition 1.5, digital camera, and have some basic TV editing skills, etc.
News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CCTV 9 and CNN.
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
We don't have a television in our dormitory, so I can only download some English programs from the internet. But I listen to some English news broadcasts such as CNN and BBC regularly.
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Strengths: The style of most foreign news bradcasts tends to be free, relax and warm. The content of the news broadcast is more close to people's life compared to Chinese broadcasts. And we can always hear of different voices and arguments, not just voices from the government or experts, that seemed fair and objective.
Weakness: Some news broadcasts have too much bias which would better be avoided.
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
BBC online homepage.

Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
Sometimes.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
Good evening everyone, welcome to CNN News Center, I'm Diana in Atlanta. Let's take a look at what's happening now in the news.
The European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson warned Thursday that China will face a backlash in Europe if it doesn't improve market access or lay down rules on the protection of intellectual property rights.
On Wednesday, he met with Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and pushed for imporved market access and anti-piracy enforcement. He said that intellectual property right was key to relations betwen the EU and China.
Thanks for watching!

NO DATE IN LEAD. LEAD TOO LONG. SECOND AND THIRD GRAFS EXCELLENT

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
Chinese opera star Diana died in Xiamen, Fujian province, the Xinhua news agency reported. Born into an ordinary family in 1986, Diana displayed her prodigious gifts early on, as a child. She went on to receive professional voice training in 1997 and won her first singing prize in 2002. For serious fans, the unforced beauty and thrilling urgency of Diana’s voice made her the ideal interpreter of the Chinese lyric repertory, especially in the 2000s and 2010s when she first achieved stardom. Diana went to Austria for the first time in June 2020, leading a cast of Chinese opera artists in a performance of Meng Jiangnus Bitter Weeping. She also made a solo appearance at the Golden Hall in Austria, winning high accolades from the world audience. She spent her last days in her hometown, Gulang Island, a fairyland for music. She said she wanted to stay with music forever. So she was optimistic and calm even in her last days. The Chinese people will remember her forever. She was renowned by the Chinese people as the “ever green tree” on the stage.

NICE JOB, WRITTEN IN GOOD BROADCAST STYLE. SO WHY AREN'T YOU STUDYING OPERA INSTEAD OF JOURNALISM?


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.

1.Beijing's 80,000 Guards to Offer "Cordial, Professional" Services for Olympic Games
A total of 80,000 security guards, including police officers, professional security people, and government-approved volunteers, will join the security service forces for the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing next year.
The authorities would launch educational campaigns so they would offer "cordial, civilized, professional and high-quality" security services for the Games in August, said Ma Zhenchuan, police chief of Beijing, at an international forum on Monday.
So far, 25,000 security guards have been given orientation on the Olympic Games, international etiquette, different customs of religions and nations, first-aid, and emergency responses.
The Beijing police department had even compiled 17 textbooks for the training of all the security servicemen, as well as local residents.

2.Food Safety Reality Check
Ping pong it's not, but observers could be forgiven for thinking that the ongoing tit-for-tat food import bans between China and the United States, bear a more than uncanny resemblance to the game. Over the past two months both countries appear to have gone into laager mode over concerns that food is failing to meet safety and health standards, blaming each other openly for poor quality imports. However, the real concerns regarding globalized food production may become clouded, as the trade bans become a political tool for authorities in each country, analysts said.
There are indications that food safety is becoming a token in a larger trade war between China and the United States. The issue first came to public attention this year when contaminated gluten added to pet food was traced to a Chinese manufacturer. U.S. politicians used the pet food scare to address concerns over food imports from China during the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) between the two countries held May 22-23 in Washington, D.C.

3.Chinese stock market shrugged off the U.S. nightmare and continually hit record highs
The hottest financial market topic of the moment could be the subprime loan crisis in the United States. The crisis has stormed the U.S. stock market, dragging it to its biggest falls in a single trading day. Other markets, such as Japan’s, were also vulnerable to the crisis, but the Chinese stock market shrugged off the U.S. nightmare and continually hit record highs. Several big Chinese banks were involved in buying subprime mortgage securities and their profits could be affected moderately. Lenovo Group has a new ambition to acquire the high-end European Packard Bell PC business but is facing strong rivals. The Chinese Government is trying to revitalize the old industrial base in the northeastern provinces. In the meantime, it has promised to invest more to maintain food safety. Foreign capital flowed into the property sector, jacking up housing prices on the mainland.

THESE PITCHES ARE OK, BUT THE POINT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT WAS TO COME UP WITH ORIGINAL STORIES YOU COULD DO YOURSELVES.

Assignment 5 missing

Thursday, September 21st, Final Analysis

“Pig Disease in China Worries the World-Lack of Data Impedes Research” leaves us a mysterious overall impression at the very beginning. After heated discussion, we found that the author herself could be a “sly” or a master in her writing and reporting skills. She never mentioned her opinion directly in the article, however, she made us believe or at least suspect that the Chinese government and researchers may lag behind in dealing with public health problems and research process, respectively. Actually, based on our understating and group discussion, what the writer tried to express is that both the information channels of the Chinese government and scientific studies ought to be more open, instead of remaining in the present relatively closed state. She intended to point out the regime or the institutional behind the scene of this news event. She gave us the examples of the agreement on the tissue samples and the withholding of information to support her opinion.

Questions or Comments for the writer:
1.The beginning of the story is very sensational and attract the readers' attention immediately. But in the third paragraph when the writer say "wiping out the entire herds", this may not be very accurate.
2. In page two, the author concludes that diseased pig already have entered the food supply both directly and indirectly. However, thoughout the whole passage, he fails to provide any evidence, no matter investigations in food markets or interviews with patients in hospitals, showing whether this is real or just a rumor.

What we have learned after analysing this news story?
1. Going through this news story, we find several points that are not valid, the author just gave his conclusion based on his own understanding of this issue. From this point we know that when we form our own news story, we should give clear sources, which can make the news more reliable.
2. After reading the whole passage, we can feel a kind of bias between the words, although the writer didn't express her feeling directly. This bias can be seen from some sentences and words she used. So we should try to avoid using inproper words in our news story. To give clear source is also a way be object.
3.The logic of this article is clear. She write it in inverse-pyramid structure. It makes the story to be complete and attractive. That is something we should learn.