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ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Kevin Jia
Mobile phone 13811623804
Email kevin_860902@hotmail.com

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Personal Web page

Blog address http://kevin860902.spaces.live.com/

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
to be a good host speaking in English and Chinese.

In 5 years?
to be a journalist.

When you graduate?
in 2008.

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
yes!

How can this course help you reach your goals?
to teach me how to write a good piece of news.

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts? yes
Video segments for YouTube? yes
Newspaper or wire stories? yes
A Blog? yes
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 worked as an intern at the department of social news in Ningbo TV station from July 23th to August 23th in 2007.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
2

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
adobe audition 1.5

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
news on Phoenix TV
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
I know about it a little. And I can watch them over the Internet.

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
I have no idea.

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

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

ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

Landlords of Beijing markets notorious for selling counterfeit good signed a deal to evict tenants TO FIGHT PIRACY. who repeatedly violate copyright law. {THIS WAS A LITTLE LONG.]

Luxury-brand representatives will monitor markets and report REPEAT copyright violations to landlords, who must evict tenants after a second offense or face legal action themselves

[YOU FORGOT TO INTRODUCE THIS PERSON] Mandelson, who met earlier with Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, said that although China now has a real political will to tackle piracy, "there is a long way to go." [There is no need to put this in quotes.]

THIS IS GOOD. NICE JOB IN BRIEFLY SUMMARIZING MAIN POINTS.


ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

On the 3rd of September, 2100, at 10 o’clock in the evening, Kevin Jia died peacefully in his sleep at home. Graduated from Communication University of China, Kevin Jia founded his own communication company and made it an influential communication corporation DELETE [later]. He was also a famous and respectable host in China DELETE [even] AND around the world. Talk with Kevin which was in charge of him had accompanied us for over 50 years and it will go along with us in our heart forever. he died beloved, revered and mourned by all his relatives, friends and audiences. And his name will endure through the time and space! [A real obituary would not use such effusive language, it would be more detatched.]

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, q 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 1:

Pitch 2:

Pitch 3:

PITCHES INCOMPLETE.

ASSIGNMENT FIVE INCOMPLETE

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?