ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Jacy Li
Mobile phone 13337660991
Email jcf.22@tom.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:
journalist
What do you want your job to be in 20 years editor, or media company CEO
In 5 years? jouralist
When you graduate? 2009

Are you interested in a career in journalism? yes

How can this course help you reach your goals? to master the basic knowleage of radio and tv

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts? no
Video segments for YouTube? yes
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 for Hainan TV as a journalist
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. writing


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch? CNN, BBC, Phoenix TV

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

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts. foreign news is more comprehensive and overall more elaborte than chinese news. at the same time, foreign news is more focus on political and economy news but the public news

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly? cnn.com, nytimes.com, sina.com.cn

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

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
Pirated copies of “the Da Vinci Code” are for sale on Beijing streets. The distributor says: “the Da Vinci Code is hit on China. It is given more than 300 prints to theatres. At the same time, it also helps the pirates to shoot the copy.” About millions of pirates copies of the Da Vinci Code books and movies DVD have been sold. 05 International Journalism



ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
(AP)We have just learnt with deep regret of the death of the famous journalist, Jacy Li. She dies of hypertension at the age of 75. Hearing the news, many celebrities of the press express their sympathies.

“We are all very sad. A shining star drops away from us” says an official from State Council News Office.

“It is a great pity for the press losing such a wonderful woman” says the famous host.

Jacy Li is best known by her profound, acute and fresh comments on current affairs. She earns her reputation as “China's Oriana Fallaci.” She has interviewed more than 100 leaders and officials all over the world. The interviewees refer to her as being dual image: lovely and dreadful. Her lovely face and dagger-hidden words always make you can’t help speaking something you can’t say or shouldn’t. She is like a digger to tap out your minds.

Graduated in Communication University of China, Jacy Li worked for a small-scale newspaper as a journalist. There, she learnt all skills, such as writing, editing, printing and reporting. After three years, she moved to the United States to study the highly-developed technology in media for five years. After that, she worked in China’s famous TV station--Phoenix TV. There she becomes a worldwide known journalist and commentator. With little her power to make a difference in the world is her lifetime target. She says. She does. She will be greatly missed by all of us.

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. What is the opinion about the label " made in China" for chinese and foreigners?
interviewees: chinese citizens, foreigners, and Chinese economic official.
2. What is the style of Beijing 2008 Olympic opening ceremony, traditional, modern or mixture with the East and the West?
interviewees:Chinese citizens, and the opening ceremony director Zhang Yimou,and some experts from China and other countries.
3. What can be revealed by the sustained growth of chinese stock and its effect to the world'economy?
interviewees: the stockbrokers, economist, and the citizens.

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? Some of the sources using in this article is not credible. The interviewees' identities and the attributions are not clear enough. For example, the author always used "the chinese government","China says", "FAO said","chinese scientists describe" or some other officials says. All of these contributions are not specific. It seems that the sources the author picked up is sufficient but it also remains doubts about whether the interviewees and the organization is authoritative.
Furthermore some of the author' quotation is indirect from the speaker, it is by editing or retail from others. For example, "Vincent Martin, an animal health officer for the FAO in Beijing, said Chinese officials he met with last week said they were not opposed to sending samples to overseas laboratories but would only do so when "intellectual property issues" were resolved."

In this article, it has generally form two school of thought, or rather debates: one is chinese government how to deal with the issue, the other is the world consider the issue is serious and urge China to uncover scientific data and tissue samples. It can reveal the say-so is always controled by the latter and quotation the author using is most lopslided to the latter. What the Chinese official's exact explanation is seldom put on the paper. Is only for the cause of "intellectual property agreement"? it remains unknown. Therefore, one will wonder if the author it tries to decase China and brought out the worldwide worries. In this way, one can say the author is not bias.

I want to ask the author that :
1.What is the purpose of writing this article, take the attention of the world focus on this issue or alarm the world for chinese pig disease or something else?
2. Is diffficult for foreign reporter to cover a serious issue and what is the difficulty to cover this piece of news?
3.Do you consider pig disease in China is a regional issue or a worldwide
issue, a natural disaster or a disaster mixing with economic or political elements?
4.Have you ever think about the impact what a piece of news will bring out? and what the news impact do you think in this article will bring out?

From this article I Learn that a piece of news coagulate the author far more painstaking effort. one must cover all of the elements before you cover a piece of the news, whether the news is bias and the material one use is fair and aross the broad, whether there is any frustration during the reportorial assignment and so on.