ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name 尹晓姗
Mobile phone
Email ilsayin1986@yahoo.com.cn

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address http://ilsaandfriends.spaces.live.com/

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
scholar or professor in a university

In 5 years?
journalist 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?
learn how to report and write news
learn more about TV station and radio, including their identified features and how they gonna work
basic rules of being a journalist


Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course: yes

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?
yes

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
TV station （journalist and editor）

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.
editing softwares


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?
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)

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ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here. Ilsa Yin Ilsa. Yin, the eminent scholar, professor in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, died in her home on Nov.14, 2081, age 95, peacefully without any serious disease. Born November, 14, 1986 in Zibo, ShanDong, CN, she grew up there till she left for Communication University of China in the country’s capital Beijing. She moved to Hong Kong in 2005, and got her master’s degree in Hong Kong Baptist University. After graduation, she joined Phoenix TV station and became an excellent journalist. She worked there for the next 10 years, and then was transferred as a special reporter in Japan, where she continued to work for 3 years, and then Europe for another 8 years. During her career as a journalist, she was famous for her wittiness, courage and determination, so she was able to catch a lot of uncommon news and did really fantastic reporting, because of which she had win many awards, the most precious among which was the Pulitzer in 2031(picture with trophy). However, at the summit of her career, she decided to go back to the school to obtain her doctor’s degree and later became a scholar. She enjoyed the pure academic life and published great works, what’s more, she inculcated successfully many young students (picture in which she is together with her students). Not married for her whole life, she said in her will that to establish a fund in her Alma Mater to support poor students to fulfill their dreams. Her former workmates praised her as smart, hard-working and warm-hearted and her students memory her as a polymath, strict yet mother-like professor The memorial services will be held at 11:00 am, Tuesday, Nov. 20th at Memorial Presbyterian Church.

ASSIGNMENT FOUR
Write three pitches that you and some classmates can actually produce with the time and resources available to you.
1、With the approach of Olympic Games, Beijing government has taken a lot of actions to improve the trafic condition in the city. What are the actions and how is the results?
Interviewee: the concerning officials, common citizens, construction workers
2、The price of merchandises on Chinese market has increased these days which give rise to many other concerning roblems. Do deep report about the reasons and what action the government has taken and will take.
Interviewee: the concerning officials, common citizens
3、Famous traditional Beijing snacks and the current-existing places where people can enjoy them.
Interviewee: the old famous chain shops' inheritors, Beijing citizens, customers in the shops, people from out of Beijing

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.

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.
."It was quick, very quick. Before we knew something was wrong, they were all dead," said Lo Jinyuan, a 55-year-old pig farmer in the village of Shandi. This is credible because the authoe tells the exact identity of the source and also quote directly.
Also other information having credible sources, such as the FAO or specific person, but when it comes to Chinese government, I wonder how did she get the information, did she interview the governor directly, or she get the info from other media.
Where did she get this statistics: At least 26 of China's 33 provinces and regions have announced they found diseased pigs within their borders.
I don't think the conclusion"its reasons for withholding information this time may be about something else: business interests" could be drawn according to what she assembled. For example, the international property is a more a jural issue than a economic issue.
If you think she has a bias, please support the claim. I believe there are bias: “…Its reasons for withholding information this time may be about something else: business interests… the more the blue ear pig disease spreads, the more money there is to be made in a vaccine.” I regard this as obvious bias judging from the tone and of course the statement. As the responsible vital country in the world, how is it possible for China to wish to have more disease just for more benefit from vaccine? I believe no government leader will so such kind of ridiculous thing.
As for the people-dieing example in Vietnam, although it literally inicate that the virus will not infect human beings, it implies that she, or some people have such afraid and it is not totally impossible.
There are also some word choices that imply bias. For instance, "the agressive" in "aggressive public education campaign" has more derogatory sense than commendatory, which imply the author's attitude to China.
"the target of recent criticism for the safety of its food and other exports" contains some bias about why she concens this blue ear disease.
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?