ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Emma
Mobile phone 13260235303
Email golgothasibyl@sina.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
Sociologist
In 5 years?
Columnist
When you graduate?
2008
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
More or less...
How can this course help you reach your goals?
Do not focus on skills firstly
Goals for this course:
Could do English interviewing and reporting really
Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?No time to produce videoes really.
Video segments for YouTube?No time to produce videoes really.
Newspaper or wire stories?Yes
A Blog?No
A regular news broadcast?No,but it depends.

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Critic,geographer,editor,sociologist,photographer,cameraman of documentary...
Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
Practice-editor in magazine
How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
None
Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
Don't think so.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
Seldom watch
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Not really
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Foreign news broadcasts are much freer and can reach the first scene
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Hardly any regularly
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
Yes, for the free part
ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
China blows up the temperary barrier on the Three Gorges Dam. Yangtze River's full force is now to be used to generate electricity. Floods can be controlled too.
The blast lasts 12 seconds and creaates more than 6.7 million cubic feet of fragments. They all fall into the river.
Officials drive away fish using electric pulses in the water first. Ultrasonic monitoring shows 90% of the fish fled.
The Three Gorges Dam is designed to produce 22.4 million kilowatts of electricity--more to light up Shanghai on a peak day. But power-generation facilities are to be finished by 2008.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
At seven p.m., on the date of ***, ****, Emma stopped her breath in this world and was going to continue her thinking in another world. We feel sorry to lose her and miss her. But we’re reassured if she could enjoy her life there. The last moment I talked with her, she said, “The years ahead hummed and glowed with promise.” All her life she’s been dreaming, dreaming the future she’d have, the life she’d live, and someone she’d become. I should be a painter. That’s her tag. She adored historian forever and wished to be. She turned out neither but a sociologist, humanist and philanthropist. And when she dived into performing the role of them, she’s so devoted that you can hardly see her strong personality. We appreciate her jobs done for the poor and marginal people, for the love and kindness she gave to them and her desire to explore the origin of their existing status quo and efforts to solve them out.
Maybe as a dreamer, she painted history with her humane sentiments. The good dream or old dream, they never become true, but she had them.
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.Interview one of my classmate Lynn who is an US drama fan, ask her watching hobbies, why she loves US drama, her understanding of it and the cultural comparison between Chinese drama and American drama.
2.Investigate all classmates about their attitudes towards Japan and the present prevailing Japanese culture, their understanding of Japanese people, how they see Abe's resignation and the future of Sino-Japan relations.
3.Interview some neutral people about their sex orientation and their values on how to live,

PIG DISEASE Key words： Fear-purpose Organizing order Psychological leading We discussed in class that journalists can choose somebody to say something they need for their own views. Now we turn to another key method----the order of the facts. It is obvious to find that the writer of this report is quite fear about this pig disaster in China, and his purpose is to invoke a fluster among the Americans towards it, and might including all the food exported from China, thus give a impression of the American public that China is a country which is full of dangerous illness and the Chinese government is incapable to solve these problems. In addition the writer is quite skillful in creating a nervous and fluster environment among the readers. Like at the beginning “By the end of the summer, all but a handful of the village's 300 pigs had succumbed to the mysterious disease." It was quick, very quick. Moving rapidly from one farm to the next, the virus has been devastating pig communities throughout China for more than a year, wiping out entire herds, driving pork prices up nearly 87 percent in a year and helping push the country's inflation rate to its highest levels since 1996.”and then in the middle mainly targeted the local readers “We are concerned that with international traffic this particular virus could enter other continents -- Europe or Africa or the Americas," and connected with background of the serious of SARS in China. These materials are easily misleading the public thus meet his purpose. The order is magic.Let's see how the author used them. Step 1,Using an exemple how the disease kills pigs to lead the image of the whole country trapped in it. Step 2,How the Chinese government has reacted so far over the disease. Step 3,The skeptical response follows tightly.The dagger is the Chinese government is slow again to share the sample and date with other countries and also its reasons of being slow--business interests and intellectual property issues. Step 4,The fact that the Chinese decline to answer the author questions.Followed up by emphersizing the importance of sharing sample and data, the author is implying some undetected reasons the government posesses which is also a hint of poor regulation. Step 5,After checking out the reason of delaying, the author reports what the government has done--China's sharing on a scintific journal is implied unprofessinal and not of full-scale because the lack of peer review. Step 6,Citing from two experts, the author is saying that the disease is in a fast pace of evolving into a more complicated virus and the spreading into the US market is totally possible. Step 7,The suspectable numbers the government released, in a more tensive reading atmosphere after Step 6, furtherly weaken the government's positive effort of solving this issue so far. Step 8,Two Vietnam people died because of eating pork. Step 9,The government's public education campaign and its relate laws passed might be the objective description of the government's possitive effort. Step 10,The "poor response" of the education--still some part of its pig raisers believe the cause of the death is superstition. Step 11 Pig carcass throught into river is a oppugn that the disease might be far from controled. Choose the facts to arrange into a order that service for the author's purpose. This article is a good example. Facts can be ordered by many ways. Every time the author described the Chinese government's effort, the bad facts which are not that directely relate come up, which successed in forming the image of China's poor regulation over these kind of issue. On the other hand, if a jounalist wants to write a positive report or a praise one for the Chinese government, he can order like that,for exemple: Some of the pig raisers are superstition, but the government has already launched an aggressive public education campaign.In this order, things look more positive. The use of order in this news influences the receiving psychology of the readers. Readers take up the nervous atmosphere first and then receiving some bad information of the spreading of the disease, the lagging of Chinese government to share data and tissue samples and the inconsistency. Impressed by those negative points, though next a few positive ones are presented, readers won’t accept them mentally. Then again the reappearance of negative-selected facts reappear and impact the understanding of the whole new. And from it, we learn that the organization order of news sources is quite important to news. Same materials, different orders could give different understandings.