ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Monica Wu
Mobile phone 13488802496
Email wushengyu1985@tom.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
A chief editor and journalist in a famous media company, and also a famous analyst of world economic and political issues.

In 5 years?
A journalist and editor
When you graduate?
A journalist
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Of course, I am.
How can this course help you reach your goals?
It shows me how to write news and provides me a new perspective to think about the world.
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts?
Video segments for YouTube?
Newspaper or wire stories?
A Blog?
A regular news broadcast?

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Yes.
Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
None.
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.
No, now.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
BBC CCTV
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Not very familiar. Over the internet.
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Strengths: prompt, multi-dimentional
Weekness: almost focus on bad news
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
New York Times, BBC, Rueters, Singtaonet, Sohu.
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
New York Times on its web site.
ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
China has finished building the three Gorges dam across the Yangtze River on May 20. The dam is 1.4 miles long. It is designed to stop flood and produce electricity. But the general manager syas they still face some big obstacles. The power-generation facilities are not finishied yet. Besides, hundreds of thousand of people needs to be reloacated. It is a huge task for China.
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
Famous journalist Monica Wu dies in a car accident in Shanghai on September 14th . She is 55. Her death brings great loss to the world of journalism. Monica Wu gains her Master of Arts’ degree in Columbia University in 2011. She works as a jounalist in Reuters after graduation. She is assigned to International Space Sation in 2020, and becomes the first journalist in outer space. The head of International Space Station says, “Monica is the most vigorous person I’ve met.” She works for nearly 18 hours everyday. She has attended many important interplanetary meetings. She tells us what is going on in the universe society. Her column in New York Times also shows earth people a fresh universe. The earth keeps in good touch with the universe through her efforts. She makes the earth people well communicate with people from other planet. The 10-year’s space life makes her an expert on interplanetary relationship. She becomes a member of institute of interplanetary issues after she returns in 2030. She has proposed many positive suggestions on interplanetary issues. The Thread of her suggestions is “cooperate-and-fight”. It means to unify those kind planets and fight against those evil. Her last 10 years is devoted to the safety of the earth. Monica Wu’s contribution is great, and she is unique.
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.
China's Economy: A new invented energy takes the places of oil and coal in China. Therefore China becomes independent from the world’s fuel market, and also its pollution decreases. I will interview one of the inventors from Science Institute of China, Wu Jinglian, a famous economist, and an analyst of international relationship. I will take some photos of the usage of this energy in factories and people’s daily life.
EU: All the members of EU has passed the constitution. The UK at last accepts Euro. Europe has become truly unified. I will interview an official of EU, a spokesman of the UK government, and also some analysts of international relationship. I will take a photo of all the leaders getting together at the end of the conference.
Products Safety: China has passed a law to set regulations on the export products. All the export goods will receive strict tests. I will interview the admonistrators of Quality Supervision of China and America. I will take a photo of the goods from China in American shop.
ASSIGNMENT FIVE
Some sources are credible, for they are clear and definite. These credible sources show interviewees’ names or organizations, such as “Juab Lubroth, head of infectious diseases for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization”. Some sources are not credible, for they are not clear and definite. For example, something like “China says” is not specific, and it doesn’t tell us who says or which orgnization says.
The facts she assembled support her conclusions well. The theme of this article is “pig dieases in China worry the world”. The comments from those scientists and officials show people’s anxiety. The disease has already infected China’s neighbours, China haven’t offered the samples, and the vaccines doesn’t come into effect yet. All of these facts really worry the world.
I think she has bias. There is an expression that “China, the target of resent criticism for the safety of its food and other exports”. At least, she has some preoccupations on China. The word “worry” in the topic proves itself negative not positive. Therefore the information she collects to support her conclusions is single-sided. Besides, the sources of the positive information are not clear and enough, while thoseof the negative are very specific.
Question: Do you think your article could make Americans worried?