ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name: Rix search
Mobile phone: 13466580634
Email: liuxu_com@sina.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
Manger of my own business

In 5 years?
stuff in media industry.

When you graduate?
year 2008

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Yes

How can this course help you reach your goals?
That depends on hard working with practice, and good cooperation with teacher.

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:
More or less.

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.
That's a pity, I didn't ever done some relative work in news media. just some practicing experiences in class.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
Less then 10.

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
Not much.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
60 minutes and CCTV news programmes.

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Not very familiar, just a simple recognation. watch at school or over Internet.

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
More active and ecnomical, while Chinese broadcasts are more practical.

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Just some Chinese newspapers and www.sina.com, etc.

Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should) Sometimes on their official websites.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

25 taliban insurgents HAVE BEEN [were] killed by U.S-led soldiers and Afghan forces, and NATO-led Canadian troops just narrowly escaped a suicide bombing.

In Kabul,Afgahn President KARZAI (you can use his name because he is a world famous person) condemned the [that thurday's] (dont use the day of the week) bombing as a cowardly attack against Muslim people.

[Accusing for trying to convert Muslims,] Hundreds of Korean Christiansboarded a flight after the government ordered them to leave.

The next day, Deputy Interior Minister softened the government's rhetoric, change the reason for Korean Christians' leave to security concerns.

CHANGED THE REASON FROM WHAT? YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN. EXAMPLE: THE GOVERNMENT HAD ACCUSED THEM OF TRYING TO WIN CONVERTS, BUT CHANGED ITS STORY. IT NOW SAYS THEY LEFT FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION.

A South Korean Embassy official says Afghan government had made arrangements for about 1.000 Korean Christians to go home.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

Rix Liu, one of the greatest managers in business industry in this century, died on Mar.9th, 2068 at his home,when he was dead, his age went to 83. The reason for his death is natual.
Born in WuHai, Inner Mongolia in 1985, Who had run a own business company in information field, from a small company in China to an enterprise famous worldwide, his company is dealing with business inner computer communication tachnology development and hi-tec information processing system, and etc.
During the whole life of Rix, he had aquired plenty of fame in information industry, and also a succesive man in sports incesting, he had supported two famous football teams in England, which brought him great fame in sports field, and also brought great amont of money to his own wealth. He had donated most of his wealth to the social affairs and welfares, and he had founded a foundation at his alma mater Communication University of China for the training and developing programs for younger students and future pontentials.
Rix had been honored as one of the most influencing 50 person in the world of this century, which aims to praise his great contributiongs to the infomation industry and social affairs.

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. The presell of the train tickets has all changed to 10 days ahead since September 6th according to the regulation set by the railroad bureau. (interview: officials in the bureau to talk about why is this change made? how it work?etc; passengers to talk about if it is more convenient; staff in the trailway station to talk about if there's any improvement since the change took place. shots: railway station, tickets selling winow. )

2. The Line 5 of Beijing Subway, scheduled to open on September 20, are having trial operation without passengers now. (interviews: the officials of subway construction bureau about the detail infor. about line 5 and the future plan of the subway construaction in China and how it will serve for the Olympics, etc. shots: line 5 station.)

3. The students who are majored in photography took part in the test competition rebroadcast for Olympics. ( interview: ask the students about the details of the rebroadcast and the newly finished olympic stadium. shoots: the stadium and the test compition.)



ASSIGNMENT FIVE

Analysing on article"Pig Disease in China Worries the World-Lack of Data Impedes Research"
I think the article leaves us a strange overall impression at the very beginning. After our own team members' discussion, our conclusion is that the author herself may be a “sly” or maybe herself is the master of writing and reporting. It's specific that she never mentioned her own opinion directly in the article, however, she use some critical facts of comments to make us believe or at least suspect that the Chinese government and researchers may unwilling to deal with public health problems and hide the research process.
Actually, accoring to our understating and discussion, maybe the writter is trying to express 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 emphasize that the political regime or the institutional behind the scene of this news event should afford the duty of problems. She showed us the examples of the agreement on tissue samples and withholding of informations to support her opinion.

Questions or Comments to the writer:
1.The beginning of the story is too sensational and easily attracted the readers' attention, but the following paragraph write "wiping out the entire herds", this kind of statement should not be very accurate and fair.
2. The following page, the author conclude that maybe directly of indirectly, those diseased pig had already entered the food supply. However, she could not provide any obvious evidence tosupport her conclusion, no matter investigations in markets or interviews from hospitals, showing whether it is a fact or just a rumor.

What we have learned from analysing this news.
1. After learing this news story, we find there are several points that are not valid, the conclusions are just based on her own understanding. From this we learn that when we form our own news story, we should give clear sources, evident evidences which can make the news accurate and reliable.
2. After reading the whole passage, we can more or less have a feeling of bias between the word lines, although the writer didn't express her feeling directly. This bias can be seen obviously from some certain sentences and words she used. So we should try to avoid using inproper words in our news story. To give clear source is always the way to be object.
3.The logic of this article is clear. She write the news in inverse-pyramid structure. It makes the story complete and attractive. That is important for us to learn in future writing news.