ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name: Ethel DENG
Mobile phone: 13718272965
Email : dengshuoasds@yahoo.com.cn

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address: ichheisseszx.spaces.live.com

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?

In 5 years?

When you graduate?
To further my study
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Yes
How can this course help you reach your goals?
To learn the ways of making news in western media
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

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

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions? Yes of course

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
I have worked as an intern journalist in my hometown TV station.
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.

Primere and Audition
News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
DragonTV
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Mainstream media such as NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Times, CNN, BBC, VOA
Means: Internet, Radio or disks
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Strength: high efficiency, style, language, media hegemony Weakness: unfair, bias and stereotype
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Xinhua News Agency CRI New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post Times
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
Yes


ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

A joint attack on the Taliban killed 25 Taliban fighters and one militant.

The attack occurred in a southern village of Afghanistan. The US-led coalition, working in concert with Afghan security forces has retained responsibility for counterterrorism.

NATO is taking charge of security in the south this week. However, the coalition is not under NATO command.

About 1,000 South Korean Christians were suspected because of seeking Christian converts. But their spokesman denied the attack was their intention.



ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

She seems to know everyone and to see everything of importance throughout the first half of the century. She is Ethel DENG, one of the major foreign correspondents of China, who used her hand-held microphone to bear humane witness to many of the century's signal events, from the Iraq War to the peaceful settlement of Palestine-Israel conflict to China-Taiwan reunification.

Her educational background, her personal effort and her wit have made what Ethel is today. The term that has come to be associated with her is "the decisive moment". She appeared bravely in the front lines in wars and disasters, in flood-ravaged areas and earthquake-struck regions.

However, she is far more than a gifted journalist. Her interviews were remarkable for their empathy. Whenever on the spot, she tried to immerse herself in the environment, to blend into and learn about their cultures.

Ethel's sharp eyes, gently mocking smile and her coolness under pressure all leave a lasting impression on us. She's such a person. What she is going to do is get better. She wants more.
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 Palestinian 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.

Pitch One:
No Car Day(Car-free Day) in China
As is known to all, people in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin suffer from traffic congestion every day in rush hours and worsening environment as well.
Initiated by the Ministry of Construction (MOC), China has set aside the week of September 16-22, 2007 as its first public transport week. And on the final day, private car owners will be asked to leave their vehicles at home and ride bikes, use mass transit or walk to work, school and shopping.
The move is an attempt to raise residents' "awareness on energy saving and environmental protection" because the country's cities are plagued by traffic congestions and pollution caused by too many vehicles on the road. If all private cars stayed off the streets for 24 hours, China would save 33 million liters of gasoline, reduce urban pollution 90 percent and prevent an untold number of deaths and injuries from traffic accidents.
(In the video, I hope I can interview relevant officials of MOC to comment on NO Car Day itself and its benefits. Also, if possible,I will add some scenes, for example, volunteers who ride bicycles instead of driving motor vehicles to advocate green traffic. )



Pitch Two:
Graduates-to-be: "Be cautious" When Applying to Foreign Schools
As the new semester arrives, junior college students officially become seniors. Facing their upcoming fourth year and a major life turning point, they are pushed to make a choice between looking for a job and continuing to study. For students who plan to study abroad after graduation, they are warned to be cautious in selecting foreign schools. China's Ministry of Education has urged students to choose reputable and well-organized educational institutions. Some countries are very active in recruiting new students but unable to provide good teaching. Students should also carefully choose agencies. Some profit-driven agencies cheat students by releasing fake information.
(In the video, I hope I can interview relevant of Ministry of Education to comment on this phenomenon. Also I want to list the 15,000 universities and schools in 33 countries since 2003 that the ministry has recommended and "blacklists" as well. Besides, I would like to interview some of my classmates who plan to study abroad to see if they have the misgivings and worries mentioned above.)


Pitch Three:
Post-eighties millionaires
Post-eighties is a word to define people who were born between 1980 and 1990. During these years, more and more post-eighties millionaires have been created by a computer industry that requires more creativity and passion than experience. Recently, an 18-year-old musician was appointed as the CEO of an online computer game company, earning an annual salary of a million yuan, breaking the record of the youngest CEO in China. The post-eighties is truly a special group and always in the limelight of public eyeballs.
(In the video, I hope I can interview some post-eighties entrepreneurs to see what's special about them.)

ASSIGNMENT FIVE I'd like to analyze this report in the following four aspects: 1. Bias It can be sensed from the following paragraphs: China says it is moving swiftly to stop the infections by quarantining and slaughtering the affected pigs. It says its researchers have developed an effective vaccine in record time for the likely cause -- blue ear pig disease, a reproductive and respiratory illness that is highly fatal in pigs but that so far does not seem to pose danger to humans. And it maintains that it has been "open and transparent" all along. Some experts, both inside and outside China, are skeptical, citing the government's handling of the avian flu outbreak in 2004 and SARS in 2002 and 2003. While China's central government has made numerous improvements since then in how it deals with infectious disease control and informs the public, it has once again been slow to share scientific data and tissue samples with other countries. While China's previous reluctance to share information may have been the legacy of years of secrecy, its reasons for withholding information this time may be about something else: business interests.For China, one the largest exporters of pork and pork products in the world and the target of recent criticism for the safety of its food and other exports, "there are economic-commercial incentives to cover up," 2. Quotation There are quotations from eight persons, they are: Lo Jinyuan—a 50-year-old pig farmer in the village of Shandi Xie Hanquan—53-year-old pig farmer Juan Lubroth--head of infectious diseases for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Yanzhong Huang--editor of the Journal of Global Health Governance and an assistant professor at Seton Hall University Mao Changqing--an analyst with CITIC Securities in Beijing Chen Qingming--secretary general of the pig breeding division of China's Association of Animal and Veterinary Sciences Zhu Guoqiang--a professor of veterinary medicine at Yangzhou University Vincent Martin--an animal health officer for the FAO in Beijing These persons all do not represent the voice of the Chinese government. They are either foreigners or ordinary individuals or from social organizations. So they lack of credibility. The quotations are not strong enough to support the whole passage. 3. Sources a. The sources in this report are vague, such as “some experts” and “Chinese officials”. b. We don’t know whether the statistics are reliable. For example, 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. 4. Diction Take Paragraph Four for example, The Chinese government has admitted that the swine deaths amount to an epidemic but contends that the situation is under control. The use of “admit” “contend” is quite subjective. They infer bias between the lines. Conclusion: We can see from the four aspects above that the writer bears some bias and stereotype towards China. She is meant to distort and uglify the image of China through the choice of words quotation and sources. Actually many western reporters bear some deep-rooted bias towards China. They select the materials that can best serve the purpose of depreciating China and at the same time turn a blind eye to the truly authoritative sources. If you compare an America’s report and a China’s on the same event, you will find they differ greatly in the perspective, style, structure, choice of words, stance, attitude and so on.