ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name gissing
Mobile phone
Email gissing523@yahoo.com.cn

Add photo here:

Personal Web page
no
Blog address
no

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
to be a housewife or do a comfortable job

In 5 years?
to work in TV station as an editor

When you graduate?
2008

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
not very much

How can this course help you reach your goals?
maybe stretch my knowledge about what kind of writing are available in a particular news.

Goals for this course:
I have no idea

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?
yes
Video segments for YouTube?
no
Newspaper or wire stories?
yes
A Blog?
no
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.
I have worked several weeks in two diffrent TV stations, helped them to write the first draft for the program.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
I don't know.

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

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
since entered the college, I 've hardly watched the TV.

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
NO

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
strengths:fast, rich in resource
weaknesses: sometimes the articles have obvious political bias.

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
washingtonpost.com
msnbc.com
but most are from chinese newpaper and web sites, like sina.com, people.com.cn etc.

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

ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

The situation in Czech Republic meeting has changed a little. Chinese delegation walks out of the global meeting to discuss the technology. China says it’s unfair and meaningless to continue it. China criticizes that US used underhand tactics to prevent global approval of WAPI, which known as international acceptance for China’s homegrown encryption technology.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much to joining us to celebrate Gissing’s birthday.
I’m amazed when I got the news that she’s already 75. She spends nearly 40 years in her successful career. Gissing has a media company which is only serving for female. The company includes television, magazine and newspaper. But she never makes her field in internet. Because she thought internet culture is a consuming culture, it made her feel unreal.
Her opinion was objected by a lot of people, but her stubbornness made her insist what she thought. Before long not only her products but also herself was accepted by the women who loved her program and her article; and accepted by the men who admiring her.
Once a time, I had a chat with Gissing, she told me that when she was a pupil, she had a dream that she wanted to be a judge to give people justice. But she failed because she accidentally attended in Communication University. When she was a freshman in collage, she had another dream to be a housewife. But she failed again because the second year in collage, she told herself before she becoming a housewife she wanted to set up her own company first. Now she told me that she could never fulfill her dream to be a housewife because she’s too old to do the housework. Although she’s not a successful enough for in her three dreams she just accomplished one, we can not say she’s a failure, because she presents us a wonderful female world.


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.

Pitch one:
While most youngsters are busy working at McDonalds, joining fan clubs and collecting the latest in hip clothing, some teenagers like Zhang Bohong ( only 18) has already become the youngest CEO in china and a millionaire overnight. How people treat this kind of phenomenon, is it good or bad? During the cruel competition can they last long?

Pitch two:
Nowadays, more and more beggars are appeared in the streets, how do people think about them? Are they really need sympathy or we can neglect them? Are they really poor or just pretend to be a poorer? Can people give some suggestion about how to solve this reality?

Pitch three:
When a million toys recalled by United States because they found high lead levels in the paint, the vice president of a Chinese toy manufacturing company Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd committed suicide. What caused him killed himself in deed. Are “made in China” really dangerous? How can China avoided this kind of tragedy happen again?


ASSIGNMENT FIVE

After reading the story, we thought the story is credible because all the sources given by the author made us easy to convince.

First the author wrote the story in china, so we believe that she write the article by her observations and investigation.

Second the sources in the news are all from official background, like global organization, national government, famous experts in that field. And all the quotes from farmers, the Chinese government, journal editor, FAO Animal Officer and professors made me feel that they are reasonable and can explain the reality that china faced.

But we think it has bias in the story.

E.g. “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.”
It shows that, china didn't handle the avian flu and SARS in the past, so author doesn’t think china has the ability to solve the pig disease now.

“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.”
"We have no firsthand or independent evaluation of the virus or vaccine. It's all been conducted by the Chinese in China."
These two sentences also made us feel that china didn't want to public the disease, and was arrogant that didn't need other countries and organizations' help.

And we think the writer puts too much attention to the reason of the disease and what the government reflects, but too little to the influence the disease brought to the Chinese citizens.

We think the author has represented almost all sides of the story, and there’s no key facts omitted.

So we think this story is a good story except there’s some biases which were unfair in it.