ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Lin Chenyin
Mobile phone 13488779193
Email linn1986@126.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal: Have a good bookshop

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
Earn enough money to open a big bookshop
In 5 years?
get a master degree or find a good job
When you graduate?
July, 2009
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Yes
How can this course help you reach your goals?
It will offer me a lot, encourage myself and help me learn the world better.
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?
I do not have one
Video segments for YouTube?
No
Newspaper or wire stories?
Yes: )
A Blog?
Yes: )
A regular news broadcast?
Hah, no.
Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
Report and Write people's livehood in a TV station, 2007
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.


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
foreign:CNN,VOA,BBC
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Almost every day. Over the Internet.
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
strengths:more experience; more freedom
weaknesses:monopolized by a few giant company; the tool of parties' conflict
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Southern Weekly
http://www.singtaonet.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.iht.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.
Pakistan to propose changing Islamic rape laws
Pakistan government plan to amend rape laws, a ruling partly lawmaker said on July 31. Under Islamic law adopted by Pakistan in 1979, a woman must produce four Muslim witnesses to prove she was raped, and currently, she fails. The reworked law will change this situation, a chairwoman for parliament’s special committee said, “This will be a historic change and it will end decades of miseries for women.” The draft legislation will be submitted soon.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

OBITUARY: Linn Lin
Linn Lin, a pioneer in aeronautic reporting, died on December 2 at her home in Hainan province, of a brain hemorrhage. She was 67.

We know her because she was the first journalist in space in 2016. David Wang, Linn’s companion, praised her passion for her work.

David Wang: “You could say she was genuinely interested in aviations and she wanted to lay out the best to people.”

She spent her entire career in radio and TV broadcasting science events, especially the series report on China’s “Shenzhou” aerospace plan. She speaks in a snuffle. Still, the voice had authority.

Anna Zeng, a long time friend, said Linn "lived in a peculiar relation to outer space."

Anna: “When we were children, she would ask which star do you want to travel, and that's something nobody ever asked. I said Mars then she told me I should bring more clothes to there because it’s a very cold place.”

After her retirement, Linn learned gardening and enjoyed her family. During this time, she wrote and published his memoir. Ms. Linn is survived by her husband James, and a child.

No service is planned. The family will follow Linn’s last wish. Her property will be donated to China’s western development plan.


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.

ASSIGNMENT FIVE
The reporter said, “The virus has been devastating pig communities throughout China for more than a year, wiping out entire herds, driving pork prices up nearly 87 percent in a year and helping push the country's inflation rate to its highest levels since 1996.” I wonder that does the pork prices’ markup is a reason for the inflation or a reflection of the inflation. Or they interact with each other? “Some experts, both inside and outside China, are skeptical” I think this sentence is not precisely. The reporter should generally tell us how many of those experts and most of them belong to what kind of organization. All in all, I think she has no bias and her information is abundant.