ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Lu Zheng
Mobile phone 1348-889-7638
Email xiaolugongzhu@yahoo.com.cn

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
explorer

In 5 years?
translator

When you graduate?
journalist

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
yes

How can this course help you reach your goals?
I believe that I can get infomation and gain from teacher's experience in Media work.

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts? No
Video segments for YouTube? So so
Newspaper or wire stories? Good
A Blog? Maybe
A regular news broadcast? OK

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions? ?

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
I worked in a TV program called “Oriental Horizon” —“Stories of Common People” of China Central Television (CCTV) from Feb.2007 to Aug. 2007. As an assistant to director, I have undertaken tasks of keeping down the scripts, translation (Cantonese and English), flash content designing and offering articles to the network.

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.
I guess not.


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch? BBC and CCTV

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
over the 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?
economist

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

ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

The EU warns China that it will face backlash in Europe unless it improve market access or protect its intellectual property rights.

EU Trade Commissioner says China has greater responsibilities to apply the rules. He says both the EU and China have to commit to openness and resist protectionist pressures. In addition, he says that intellectual property right was key to relations between the EU and China.

European and American companies complain about pirated goods in China. They say that cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

Today is a special day, as you know, it is the birthday of Lulu, a great woman in our times.

At the age of 70, she still took part in the team for expedition to antarctic. And she led a happy life there without any illness. There is no hint you can found on her face of her age. She kept such good shape and vitality that she always looks young. Before I declare today is her 75th birthday, I have heard many of you asking me if today is her 45th birthday.

I believe all of you know her past as a wonderful reporter of BBC. Because of her outstanding sense of news and always be the first one in the scene where a sensational event happened, she was honored as Royal Journalist by Prince William.

However, she has much more interests than being a reporter. She have an inborn affection to animals that she gave up her brilliant job and turn to be an explorer in Africa. The animals there excited her and she had another experience then as she said ' I feel calm and peaceful with them. I really feel myself as part of the nature.' Later on, she helped to promote the law of protecting animals by writing articles to media and her book Animals,Human and Nature.

Thanks to her great effort that we have the chance to share her past and her today, and we expect her future to be filled with more miracles.

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.