ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name: Iris
Mobile phone:13811303933
Email:haoyiren@126.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page:don't have it at the moment

Blog address:don't have it at the moment

Survey:

Career goal: TV Program Editor

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
A TV Program Editor

In 5 years?
A TV Program Editor

When you graduate?
Going abroad for further study

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Just a little

How can this course help you reach your goals?
I hope it can give me a brief introduction about TV program editing.
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?
Yes
Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
During my second year in college I went to a small villeage working with the local reporters to make a news project about the general living conditions of rural people.
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.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CCTV&CNN(sometimes)
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Foreign news broadcasts are not very accessible to me. I cannot watch them at home for some technical reasons, and rarely do I watch them over the Internet due to the time limits.
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Pros:authenticity
Cons:having bais sometime
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Newsweek International Editions-MSNBC.com
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.
Xinhua news agency says China accused U.S. of leading China's technical standard to be rejected by the global organization. According to Xinhua, U.S. engineers unfairly violetes International Standard Organization's rules and makes ISO reject China's wirelless encryption standard, WAPI. But China strongly refuses the rejection and hopes ISO can take it back.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
My friend Iris's life can be generally divided into three phases.

In the first phase, she focused attention on her education. After four-year study in college in China, she went overseas for further study with a bachelor degree in Journalism. During 2008 to 2010 in university of Toronto, she got her master degree in TV program production. After that, she chose to study in universty of Washington in the US for a PH.D, majoring in media technology.

With the excellent educational backgroud, she worked in TV stations in various countries as an TV program editor during her second phase. At that time, she produced and participated in dozens of popular TV program, ranging from news to entertainment. One of the programs even won the top TV program prize in 2031.

In her forties to sixties, which belong to the third phase, she quited the job at the TV station and became a voluntary teacher in a small villiage in easten China.Undoubtedly, she led a life which was full of fulfillment and peace.
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.


I.Beijing Snacks
Places to go:QuanJuDe(a famous restuarant for roasted duck)
WangFuJing Walking Street
ShiChaHai
Shots:Various snacks in Beijing(introdution)
The view of those polular streets of Beijing Snacks(day and night)
People on those streets enjoying the food

II.Traffic Jam in Beijing
Shots:the two ring road(8a.m.-10a.m. & 6p.m.-8p.m.)
XiZhiMen
GuangQuMen to ShuangJing Bridage
People planning to interview:Official in Beijing Communication Department (if possible)
Local people(especially those who have to work during the rush hour)

III.mid-autumn festival
Shots: Longtan Park (the lantern show in the park during the festival)
Various moon cakes in the store
An ordinary familiy enjoying their reunion time
Traditional folk story about this festival

Assignment 5:

sources:
I:At first, it was just some of the piglets. ..."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.

I think this is truth. This may come from face-to-face interview, so it is quite fair without any bais.

II:"We are concerned that with international traffic this particular virus could enter other continents -- Europe or Africa or the Americas," said Juan Lubroth, head of infectious diseases for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, based in Rome. "We have no firsthand or independent evaluation of the virus or vaccine. It's all been conducted by the Chinese in China."

I think what the official said is quite fair too, because what he said were the mere facts not the comments. So there is no bais either.

III: "there are economic-commercial incentives to cover up," said Yanzhong Huang, editor of the Journal of Global Health Governance and an assistant professor at Seton Hall University.

"We discussed this issue at length. . . . We decided to come up with an agreement between the Chinese government and any laboratory that receives the virus, a clear agreement of the two parties that it is just to be used for scientific purposes," Martin said

Since this comes from Chinese officials, so there is no clear unfairness.

IV:Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture declined to answer questions by phone about the pig deaths and did not respond to questions faxed to them.

This seems like a clear bais for chinese people. It might be true but seems quite like that chinese government tend to cover their secrets purposely from exposure. This kind of situation did exist quite a few years ago but it is getting better nad better now.

WHY IS THIS A BIAS? IT IS TRUE, AS YOU SAID. AND I CAN TELL YOU AS A JOURNALIST WHO WORKS HERE THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT REMAINS VERY SECRETIVE AND DOES NOT SHARE INFORMATION WITH FOREIGN REPORTERS EASILY. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE OFFICIALS FROM OUTSIDE AND INSIDE CHINA SAYING THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT SHARING INFORMATION. ALSO, THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF IS NOW JUST SETTING UP A "WORKING GROUP" TO DISCUSS SHARING INFORMATION. SO I DON"T SEE HOW THIS IS BIASED.


V:But the public paper released by the Chinese scientists has had only a cursory peer review -- by editors of the paper, whose goal is to get information up faster and leave it online for public peer review -- and leaves many questions unanswered.

These sentences are like criticism to me. "leaves many questions unanswered" sounds like irresponsibility.

Overall, it is quite a fair article about China. But there are some obvious baises about Chinese government and its policies. It seems natural for overseas editors to
put some unfairness in their articles.


YOU SEEM TO BE EQUATING CRITICISM OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WITH BIAS. I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THAT CRITICISING A GOVERNMENT AND BEING BIASED AGAINST IT ARE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.