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Evelyn Yang
ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW
Name : Ervlyn Young
Mobile phone :
Email : young128yry@yahoo.com.cn
Add photo here:
Personal Web page
Blog address
Survey:
Career goal:
What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
human rights activist
In 5 years?
interpreter, reporter, or editor
When you graduate?
further study
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
yes
How can this course help you reach your goals?
It particularly improves our news writing skill
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.
No experience
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.
None
News Habits:
Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CCTV, BBC, Phoenix
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts?
Quite familiar
Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Yes, I can
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
+ : balance of praise and criticism
_ : sometimes too aggresive, too much exaggeration
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Reuters, Xinhua
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times?(Hint: You should)
No, but thx for the hint
ASSIGNMENT TWO
Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
China receives a warning from the European Union for not fulfilling WTO obligations. EU trade chiefs says on Thursday that China will probably face a European backlash. China enters WTO in 2001. It has made promises of full market access and intellectual property rights. Now it is critisized for failure to keep its words. In response, China suggests a solution through negotiations. But recent talks have been fruitless.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
The great traveler, speaker and writer Ervlyn Young has passed away on Tuesday, at the age of 75. Crowds of her readers pack her house at 81 Bratang street, in her hometown, Surabaya, Indonesia. Funeral service will be held tomorrow noon at graveside in Eden Memorial Gardens. The UN Secretary General and the incumbent president of Indonesia will then be present to pay tribute to her great life and work. The UN Secretary General calls her 'daughter of the people and mother of the world'. “It's a painful loss to humanity that a lady whose footsteps are imprinted across the continents and whose words are implanted in everybody's mind should leave us forever. She is daughter of the people, mother of the world..."
Ervlyn will be remembered for her inspiring travels and her contributions to cultural assimilation. Born as a Chinese Indonesian in 1987, Ervlyn grew up in a bilingual family. As a fresh graduate from Communication University of China, Ervlyn started out her career being a culture correspondent for BBC World Service in 2009. Eight years later, at the age of 30, she turned a freelance writer and specialized in the study of cultures and racism. In 2022, she began her forty-year travel around the world and returned both as an eloquent speaker and a great writer. Her renowned five-hour speech “The Culture of Humanity” rules against racism and advocates assimilation. Her masterpieces collection “Windows of the World” sells better than the Bible. They earned her the 2055 Nobel peace prize.
Three weeks ago she was stricken by a sudden paralysis which directly causes her death yesterday.
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. Chinese Education System (interview with headmistress of CUC)
2. Religion in China (interviews with people from different age groups)
3.Euthanasia in China (interviews with doctors and people from different age groups)
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW
Name : Ervlyn Young
Mobile phone :
Email : young128yry@yahoo.com.cn
Add photo here:
Personal Web page
Blog address
Survey:
Career goal:
What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
human rights activist
In 5 years?
interpreter, reporter, or editor
When you graduate?
further study
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
yes
How can this course help you reach your goals?
It particularly improves our news writing skill
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.
No experience
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.
None
News Habits:
Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CCTV, BBC, Phoenix
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts?
Quite familiar
Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Yes, I can
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
+ : balance of praise and criticism
_ : sometimes too aggresive, too much exaggeration
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Reuters, Xinhua
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times?(Hint: You should)
No, but thx for the hint
ASSIGNMENT TWO
Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
China receives a warning from the European Union for not fulfilling WTO obligations. EU trade chiefs says on Thursday that China will probably face a European backlash. China enters WTO in 2001. It has made promises of full market access and intellectual property rights. Now it is critisized for failure to keep its words. In response, China suggests a solution through negotiations. But recent talks have been fruitless.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
The great traveler, speaker and writer Ervlyn Young has passed away on Tuesday, at the age of 75. Crowds of her readers pack her house at 81 Bratang street, in her hometown, Surabaya, Indonesia. Funeral service will be held tomorrow noon at graveside in Eden Memorial Gardens. The UN Secretary General and the incumbent president of Indonesia will then be present to pay tribute to her great life and work. The UN Secretary General calls her 'daughter of the people and mother of the world'. “It's a painful loss to humanity that a lady whose footsteps are imprinted across the continents and whose words are implanted in everybody's mind should leave us forever. She is daughter of the people, mother of the world..."
Ervlyn will be remembered for her inspiring travels and her contributions to cultural assimilation. Born as a Chinese Indonesian in 1987, Ervlyn grew up in a bilingual family. As a fresh graduate from Communication University of China, Ervlyn started out her career being a culture correspondent for BBC World Service in 2009. Eight years later, at the age of 30, she turned a freelance writer and specialized in the study of cultures and racism. In 2022, she began her forty-year travel around the world and returned both as an eloquent speaker and a great writer. Her renowned five-hour speech “The Culture of Humanity” rules against racism and advocates assimilation. Her masterpieces collection “Windows of the World” sells better than the Bible. They earned her the 2055 Nobel peace prize. Three weeks ago she was stricken by a sudden paralysis which directly causes her death yesterday.
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. Chinese Education System (interview with headmistress of CUC)
2. Religion in China (interviews with people from different age groups)
3.Euthanasia in China (interviews with doctors and people from different age groups)
Assignment 5
Pig Disease in China Worries the World
Lack of Data Impedes Research
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, September 16, 2007; Page A01
Sunday, September 16, 2007; Page A01
Analysis
Overall, this is quite a compelling feature. This especially becomes evident when we consider the sources of the news story. The whole article is almost like a reconstruction of interviews record in which the author pieces together the shattered statements and opinions to retell a complete story. The interviewees, apparently, contain a large number of experts or officials from relevant organizations. Other sources come from governments and mass media. Extensive researches done on these reliable domestic and foreign resources boost the credibility and (to some extent) the objectivity of the article.
The following is the detailed sources of the whole article :
1. government (Chinese, Vietnamese, and other foreign governments <implied>)
2. mass media (local and international), for instance PLoS ONE
3. international organizations or their officials , such as FAO, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, China Association of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
4. relevant experts (editor of journals, animal health officer, analyst with CITIC security)
5. small pig farmers
These are credible sources mentioned or implied in the article. They are considered “credible”, for one thing because of their acknowledged reputation, for another because their names are clearly cited; this will work to urge the author to be more careful in either quoting or interpreting them and therefore reduce the possibility of ‘false information’.
6. firsthand experience
7. experts inside and outside who was reported ‘skeptical’ of China , citing China ’s handling of SARS and bird flu
8. animal disease experts
The three sources above are adequately acceptable, but are relatively less credible. Firsthand experience can be just as credible as the first four sources depending on the reputation of the reporter, because, anyway, no one proves what the reporter claims to have witnessed. Meanwhile, the rest two sources miss some more specific details about the experts crucial to increase credibility (such as their names, nationality, or at least the organization they are affiliated to).
In the reconstruction of the story, the author does not directly include personal opinions on the issue; instead, she draws a conclusion from the obtained information. This matches the fundamental rules of making news which suggests representation of pure facts. It is this that people regard as ‘objectivity’. Unfortunately, in the face of overwhelming facts, the process of ‘facts’ selection itself (to achieve a certain goal) often undermines the so called ‘objectivity’. In other words, every piece of news must contain a certain degree of bias. Rather than calling it ‘bias’, better term it ‘standpoint’. A reporter writes in the interest of his/her news agency which is directly or indirectly linked with the authority, or represents particular parties or organizations. This makes 100% fairness impossible. Reporters don’t intentionally include their personal opinions, but they implies between words. This article about pig disease looks a bit like a propaganda of the American government ultimately aimed at putting pressure on China to share its scientific data and tissue samples. The whole story sounds more like ‘Chins’s reluctance to share samples worries America ’ which is disguised as the heavily bolded title ‘Pig Disease in China Worries the World’.
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