ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Wang Xiaoni (Torrance)
Mobile phone 138 117 62660
Email jimaoya@163.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page no

Blog address no

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
That's when I'm 40 years old...If I'm in China, I'd like to be a superintendent working in a TV station having my own office room, or an editor-in-chief working for a magazine. If I'm in Great Britain, I'd like to be a TV host.

In 5 years?
I'd like to be a reporter or journalist working for a TV station or a magazine.
When you graduate?
I would go to Great Britain for my further study on journalism if everything goes well.

Are you interested in a career in journalism?W
With all my passion! I think I'm suitable for this kind of job owning to my character and experience.
How can this course help you reach your goals?
I want to have some news writing practice, and then get properly correted in order to know where my weakpoint is :)

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts? no
Video segments for YouTube? yes
Newspaper or wire stories? yes
A Blog? no
A regular news broadcast? yes

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Yes, that's not bad.

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
Intern editor in Xinhua News Agency, intern TV editor in Phoenix TV,
intern journalist in Liao Ning and Shen Yang TV station.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
2 (maybe more, but I'm not sure.)

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
I can use audio software.



News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CNN

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
I've listened CNN Student News for about 2 years.
I can only downloaded some foreign news programmes over the Internet.

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Strengths: more natural, higher efficiency, more delicate video production.
Weaknesses: let me see...

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
BBC ----Radio Homepage
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
Not yet...

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
I'm sorry I didn't attend your first class due to some reason :( So I didn't have the news sourse. If possible, I may get that sheet on this Tuesday, and make up the homework :)

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
Obituary


Wang Xiaoni, former chief of News Station of Xinhua News Agency accredited to Great Britain Embassy, passed away peacefully in the Embassy’s sanatorium on January 24th 2086, having lived 100 years.
Born in Liaoning Shenyang in 1986, Wang Xiaoni was enrolled in Communication University of China majored in International Broadcasting Journalism after college entrance exam. She pursued her further study in Goldsmith College of London University majored in TV Journalism. She was employed by BBC Broadcast To China after graduation, and become the only employed Chinese ever in Britain’s history. She came back to China in 2014, as an editor-in-chief of International Affairs Department of Xinhua News Agency, and took the in-depth coverage of War of America-Japan in 2019 and the World War 3 in 2024. She won the Pulitzer Prizes in 2025 due to the coverage, and was appointed to News Station of Xinhua News Agency accredited to Great Britain, named the chief 2 years later. She has devoted her whole life to journalism field.
The cremation will be held in Britain National Crematorium at 8 o'clock in the morning, January 26th 2086.


Xinhua News Agency of People's Republic of China
January 24th 2086

GREAT JOB. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO GOT IT SO FAR.

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. More and more college students choose to operate a shop either on the Internet or in reality. Some of them are my friends, who are from different majors related to media, but their final jobs have nothing to do with media. I'd like to interview those friends, such as Li Xiaobai (cake shop) and Zhang Yuxiang (Internet shop), to know their reasons.

GOOD IDEA


2. The price of buying a house in Beijing has been rising at a suprising pace. Four years ago at 5 huan, the price was only 4,000 RMB per square metre, while now it's up to 10,000RMB per square metre at some places. So it makes buying a house a great burden in Beijing,and lots of residents feel the price is too high to believe. I want to interview some related people if possible, to see whether the price would go down after the Olympics or keep rising in the future.

ALSO GOOD

3. It's been a more and more common situation that '419' is getting more public and acceptble among college students. You can easily see somebody find sexual partner on the college students' forum, and to my surprise, only a few students think it's shameful. I call this "China's Sexual Liberation Movement", compared to US's 1960s. So I want to interview some of them to have a chat (I can find them in a specail way), because I think they represent lots of contemporary Chinese college students. I wonder whether it's because of their pressure of life or vacuity, or their open thoughts~!

THIS IS VERY GOOD

ASSIGNMENT FIVE

Basically in my opinion, “Pig Disease in China Worries the World-Lack of Data Impedes Research” is a comprehensive report, yet some weaknesses due to the correspondent's vague view of the report make us confusing about the whole event. Trough heated discussion on class, our group determined she focused mainly on what the title says, "the swine disease threating the whole world comes from China". But several details she lists do not support her piont of view. For instance, at the top of the 5th page, the first two paragraphes about Vietnam's swine disease reveal that China does not contributes to it, thus it is not a strong detail to back her view.