ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Frances
Mobile phone 13581661796
Email cici0201@163.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page: no

Blog address: no

Survey:

Career goal: to be a successful business woman in communication industry

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
i want to be in charge of a media company doing news, tv,movie and ads,and be quite famous.

In 5 years?
i want to find a position in a promising media company

When you graduate?
i want to find a job in a tv station or do feuther study

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
much more in the combinatin of journalism and economy

How can this course help you reach your goals?

Goals for this course:
i want to learn how news is done and know the tv and radio indusry better.

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?
Video segments for YouTube?
Newspaper or wire stories?
yes, i can
A Blog?
A regular news broadcast?

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
sometines,not too often

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
no.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
no.

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
no.


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
cnn, bbc, cctv,

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

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
strengths: more vivid, more emotional, the information is in a wider range.
weakness: more ads between the news

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
New York Times, China daily

Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
yes, on the internet
ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
11 suspected Taliban and six policemen have been killed in clashes across southern Afghanistan on August 14. Another four NATO troops have been wounded in blast in Kabul, the capital.
Afghanistan, particularly provinces near the Pakistani border, is in serious violence since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban regime in late 2001.
Southern and eastern Afghan provinces have been under violence attack since early this year. Kabul has been largely spared from violence, because there are thousands of NATO-led foreign troops. But the bombing on August 14 rattles the capital.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
We begin on a sad note today, as world mourns the loss of one of its greatest entrepreneurs and activists. Frances Meng is a giant in the communication industry. She took over the Globe in Hand, at the age of 36 and led it to be one of the most influential media company in the world. Later, she found the ABC science research group and relieved the world from the fear of cancer. The renowned entrepreneur died on Friday in her home town in China with her family around her.

The editor of New York Times grounds Frances one of the cleverest and most successful entrepreneurs in communication industry. Her philosophy for “true news” and “caring for the poor” has made Globe in Hand known to all. Her company has 8 branches specialized in news, movies, TV series, advertisements and so on. It has about 100 subsidiaries around the world.
The secretary of world health organization says Frances has contributed a lot to the improving of human health. Frances has advocated a lot of elites in science field to join her group for the task of human health. The secretary awards Frances with the title of “the message for freedom and love”, because she has given her group’s cancer-killing medicine for free, to those who are in poverty and suffering from cancer.

The president of sub-Saharan Union attributes Frances to the improvement of Africa public health condition. Frances’ research group has made great breakthroughs in finding cures for AIDS. The new leader of ABC group promises to carry on their research and give their medicine free to African sufferers, as the wishes of Frances.

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. A reluctant child bride told a Utah jury Friday that she was trying to preserve her "eternal salvation" when she obeyed a command by polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs to marry her cousin at age 14.
I would like to cover the story from the angle of the young girls who was trying to preserve her "eternal salvation". Why dose she made this decision, her perception of her marriage and what she is looking forward to in her life in the future.
To reach my goal I would like to carry out interviews with the girl, her husband, her family and friends, as well as the preacher. Videos about the girl’s life may be included.

2. America’s 2008 president election is among one of the most concerned topic throughout the year. I would like to interview the friends, classmates and colleagues of one or some candidates, and give more detailed background information to the public, and simultaneously depict the would-be leaders from a perspective of an ordinary person. Some documentary video and a few private collections may also be included.

3. Chinese food security is now among one of the biggest concerns in the world. I would like to interview the government officials, concerning the Chinese food industry supervision institution, the ministry of commerce and so on to see how they are going to deal with the tough situation. Secondly, I would also like to interview with those ordinary Chinese people and people outside china who consume Chinese exporting food. World organizations and foreign institutions may also be interviewed.
My aim is to provide an objective report about China. In the report, its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games may be mentioned too.
To provide a convincing report I may shoot some of the food processing factories and restaurants on the allowance or secretly to let the public know what is really happening.

Assignment 5 Due Sat .Sept 22.

Please read the Washington Post pig disease story.


Please evaluate the story in terms of fairness and bias, focusing on how the story is sourced.

In other words, go through the story and determine the sources of all the reported facts. Please weigh how credible each source is. Then consider whether the facts she has assembled support the conclusions she draws. Has she assembled a solid foundation of facts, or is leaving out important information or points of view? You should also consider things you know about this situation that are not reported in the story.

If you think she has a bias, please support the claim.

I am going to compile your answers and send them to the writer, so please include any questions you want to ask her.

Please complete this by Saturday evening. I am not looking for length, but quality of ideas. Please dont spend more than an hour on this assignment.

Did this story give you any ideas for your own methods of reporting?
The sources in the report can roughly be divided in to three categories. One is from Chinese government or Chinese officials. Another is from the local news agency, the Chinese experts or organizations and the farmers. Most of the sources the correspondent quoted in the report, however, are from world organizations and foreign experts, such as the FAO, the Journal of Global Health Governance, the editor of the PLoS ONE, and other foreign news agencies as well.

Generally speaking, the ideas conveyed from the third group of sources are criticizing China for its hiding the facts and the scientific data from the public. The sources are, to some extent, quite credible for she has attributed exactly names for each source. And those sources from a third part including the UN organizations are usually considered to be not so biased. Nevertheless, when the whole report is overstuffed by only one kind of opinions, it will raise skepticism among readers.

In addition to that, no one can be sure that those experts and members of organizations are all objective and having no personal preference. In the report, there is a lack of information directly from the Chinese government. For one reason, its attributions to those officials and department are blurred, such as “China says”, “Chinese government”. She does not give the reader the specific titles or names from whom she got the information, thus the readers may guess the correspondent perhaps heard the news from people on the street. There are no words or ideas directly expressed by Chinese government. For example, as to the Chinese scientist’s request concerning intellectual property issue, the writer cites only the words from an official from the FAO. For an unbiased report it should give a chance to different parties who share opposite views or allow others to explain for themselves. It is not credible to report a country without its countryman’s voice.

The writer, on the other hand, tells us why she cannot provide thorough information from the Chinese government. That is because she cannot contact them. Maybe she should try harder or ask her friends in China to help her so as to make an unbiased report.

The correspondent has made some conclusion upon the words and information she has got. Some of them are convincing, whereas some of them are lopsided. One of the conclusions she drew is “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.” As far as I concern, it may be part of the reason not the only one.

I have a question about the last sentence “On a recent weekday afternoon, a single bloated, purple pig carcass was floating near the southern bank.” Is it a scene the write seen herself or heard from others?

1. Is it because you have read a lot of reports covering Chinese food security, you write the report to follow suit and attract readers?
2. Your goal is to criticize or to urge the government to solve the problem?
3. Since your last name is Cha, do you have a Chinese extraction?

To be a qualified correspondent and write an unbiased report, one has to do a lot of preparation and research. Sometimes there may be obstacles for a journalist to carry out his or her interviews, but in order to secure the credibility and objectiveness one has to try every possible mean to balance the sources and evaluate them carefully. I think to make a thorough plan for reporting including where to go, what to shoot and who to meet, something like a pitch, is necessary and helpful to fulfill the task efficiently


THIS IS THE BEST ANALYSIS SO FAR. BUT I AM STILL SURPRISED AT YOUR RELUCTANCE TO BELIEVE THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS, AND THE EASE AT WHICH YOU ACCUSE THE REPORTER OF BIAS.

FOR EXAMPLE, IS IT FAIR TO BLAME THE REPORTER FOR NOT TALKING TO MORE CHINESE GOVERNMENT SOURCES, WHEN A SPOKESMAN REFUSED TO TALK TO HER? SHE GOES OUT OF HER WAY TO GET THE CHINESE SIDE BY REFERRING IMPLICITLY TO CHINESE PUBLIC STATEMENTS TO THE MEDIA. SHE ALSO SPEAKS TO A CHINESE VETERINERY OFFICIAL.

IT IS CLEAR THAT THE WRITER OR HER RESEARCHER SAW THE PIG IN THE RIVER.

YOU RAISE SOME GOOD QUESTIONS, THOUGH. LETS SEND THEM TO THE REPORTER.