ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Wang Wan (Minnie)
Mobile phone 13581748571
Email minniejoy2000@163.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page: I do not have one.

Blog address: http://blog.sina.com.cn/minniewong

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
A Financial Jounalist and Editor for a newspaper or a magazine
In 5 years?
1. If I could, go to LSE(London School of Economics and Political Science) for my postgraduate studies
2. To be a financial jounalist after graduation
When you graduate?
2008 and then study my favourite-IPE(International Political Economy)
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Yes.
How can this course help you reach your goals?
By helping me with English news writing skills.

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:
Yes, of course.
Podcasts? Great.
Video segments for YouTube? No.
Newspaper or wire stories? OK
A Blog? Fine.
A regular news broadcast? Too complicated, maybe
Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Yes. That would be so good.
Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
Use to be a reporter and editor for high school newspaper.
How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
Not much. Only 2 assighnments.
Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
Adobe Audition

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
Biz China/ Eastern Horizon(Chinese)
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.
Sometimes, foreign news media hold strong bias toward the 3rd world, while China is a leader of developing countries.
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
FT.com/Economist.com/WSJ.com/Fortune/Newsweek/...and some Chinese newspapers...
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
Sometimes I visit the websites.
ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
In Afghanistan, finghting and violence [continue]occur one after another , killing hundreds of civilians, [and burn]burning 144 schools, after the ouster of Taliban regime. The Ministry of Education and U.S. troops are now trying DELETE (its obvious)[to stop insurgency and] to adopt a program to protect schools. In some parts of the country, clashes between police and Taliban militants left casualities for both sides.

Good effort to put the violence into context in the first sentence. The grammer is wrong though -- what is the subject of the verb burn? Also, we try to avoid using continue in the lead of a broadcast story, because it is seen as an admission that nothing is actually new. The lead is also too long.


ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

I still don't understand why I have to write an obituary, since I'm alive.

YOU ARE DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT TO IMAGINE THE GOALS YOU WANT TO ACHEIVE BY THE END OF YOUR LIFE. THAT MAKES IT EASIER TO WORK TOWARD ACHIEVING THEM.

Minnie Wong, one of the greatet financial reporters of our time left us for ever today on July 4th. Graduatuing from LSE, leaving for us some fantastic documents of our economy, Minnie worked very hard all through her life. Whenever possible , she tried to record the changing data and statistics of our daily life, as well as our country.Minnie wanted to be a financial jounalist ever since she first read John Maynard Keynes and took him as her idol when she was 16 years old. For over half a century, she has made great contribution in a creative way of financial reporting. She did her best to write for common readers not just for experts. People love her for her intuition and sense in writing.

NICE

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. I want to go to the stock exchange to interview some people there. Today, September,11 witessed a rollercaster session of the stock market in China, with over the decline of over 4% . So I could talk with common people involved in the market to amplify their voices. Get to know their stories. THIS IS OK, BUT FOR A PITCH YOU SHOULD FIND A COMMON PERSON FIRST THEN TELL ME THEIR STORY.
Sorry. I could interview some people from the stock exchange.
2. To collect CPI and some other data of China's economy and analyse. Reconsidering the relationship between inflation and unemployment. THATS QUITE AMBITIOUS. ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO DO THIS?
I will try ! One day I hope I can.
3. Lang Lang and Chinese music: Lang Lang is trying his best to promote Chinese culture to the whole world. This pitch will focus on his Chinese album "Dragon Songs" and perhaps his early experience that has shaped this world famous pianist. THIS COULD BE GOOD. DO YOU HAVE ACCESS?
Yes. I am a gold member and a reporter of Lang Lang's fans club. So there are a lot of available resources on the website, like video and photos. Maybe I could rearrange those resources.

ASSIGNMENT Five


Thursday, September 21st, Final Analysis

“Pig Disease in China Worries the World-Lack of Data Impedes Research” leaves us a mysterious overall impression at the very beginning. After heated discussion, we found that the author herself could be a “sly” or a master in her writing and reporting skills. She never mentioned her opinion directly in the article, however, she made us believe or at least suspect that the Chinese government and researchers may lag behind in dealing with public health problems and research process, respectively. Actually, based on our understating and group discussion, what the writer tried to express is that both the information channels of the Chinese government and scientific studies ought to be more open, instead of remaining in the present relatively closed state. She intended to point out the regime or the institutional behind the scene of this news event. She gave us the examples of the agreement on the tissue samples and the withholding of information to support her opinion.

Questions or Comments for the writer:
1.The beginning of the story is very sensational and attract the readers' attention immediately. But in the third paragraph when the writer say "wiping out the entire herds", this may not be very accurate.
2. In page two, the author conclude that diseased pig already have entered the food supply both directly and indirectly. However, thoughout the whole passager, she fails to provide any evidence, no matter investigations in markets or interviews from hospitals, showing whether this is real or just a rumor.