ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name
Mobile phone
Email

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:

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

In 5 years?

When you graduate?

Are you interested in a career in journalism?

How can this course help you reach your goals?

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?
Video segments for YouTube?
Newspaper or wire stories?
A Blog?
A regular news broadcast?

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.

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

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?

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

ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

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.