ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Sissi Feng
Mobile phone 13426068491
Email fairycc@gmail.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address http://www.mtime.com/my/760708/

Survey:

Career goal: a good female columnist

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
media work....I do it well and I still have strong passion for it
In 5 years?
make lots of money
When you graduate?
2009
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
yeah..
How can this course help you reach your goals?
grasp the basic rules of writing broadcast news
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

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

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
by far no
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.
I can express well...I have my own angle of view..

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CNN xinhua
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
not very familiar... cannot watch them at home....but can watch 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?
CNN web sites...Chinadaily
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should) no,but I will

ASSIGNMENT TWO

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

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

Hailed as one of the world's greatest talk show compere and the winner of pulitzer prize of journalism in 2012, Sissi Feng died on September 14,2062 in Qingdao, China at the age of 75. She was the only one that earned "the queen of talk show"after Oprah Winfrey. Her unique and sharp angle of view, her intelligence, optimism, and friendliness made her famous all over the world. Born in Shangdong, China,in 1987, Sissi Feng was a happy and smart girl. She had made her mind to be a journalist since she was 10years old. She got her bachelor's degree of International Journalism in Communication University of China. Then she went to Pecking University and got her master's degree of media communication. Then she worked in PhoenixTV. Two years later she flew to Columbia University for further study and got her Doctor's degree of communication. After graduation she made lots of programs for the famous 20/20, 60 minutes and so on.during this period she won the pulitzer prize.Seven years after she joined in Fox, and started her famous talk show program in her life. "She made a miracle after Oprah Winfrey. " the New York Times commented. In her 50s, due to health problem, Sissi Feng returned to her motherland Shandong,China. Since then she had been living in the seashore villa in Qingdao. There she led a peaceful life and refused any interview. She devoted herself to the research of international communication, and wrote a column for a magazine. After her death, many celebrities in the field of culture and media came to attend her funeral.


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. On Sep22, 2007the result of the survey on satisfaction of public transport system by 8environmental organizations in Beijing was publicized. About 3000citizens took part in the survey. The satisfaction is less than 10%. The result proved that the public transport system needs great improving in future. I would first shoot the pictures of different transports. Then interview some citizens who are about to take bus or subway. And I will also interview some experts in the environmental organizations, which started the survey.
2. Mid-autumn festival is coming. On Sep22,2007 Beijing Hygiene inspection Institution claimed to public that more than 90%of the selected mooncakes are qualified. Meanwhile, 8 kinds of mooncakes in 5 companies are inspected to contain coliform. 45 factories and 118 kinds of mooncakes are inspected. According to the “food security bill”, the unqualified factories were punished. I will interview some of the illegal factories and relative officers in Beijing Hygiene Inspection institution,and shoot some pictures of their making mooncakes.

3. An agency cheated 141 ungraduate students in the name of introducing teaching in home work., but not a single student called the police for help. Some of them even still didn’t know about it when the police called them. A company employee called the police, due to the unpaid situation. The boss was a female graduate student who is still at university. I will interview some of the ungraduate students and the employee who called the police and the policemen in charge of this case. If it permits, I will also interview the boss of the company. I will shoot the pictures of the company, both outside and inside.

ASSIGNMENT FIVE
PIG DISEASE I think there is bias in the news. The reporter said,"Some experts, both inside and outside China, are skeptical, citing the government's handling of the avian flu outbreak in 2004 and SARS in 2002 and 2003."She didn’t give a confirmed evidence to prove the credibility of this sentence. The examples she selected are mostly obliviously disadvantageous to China.eg,"Though there's no evidence that the virus poses a threat to humans, there are signs that diseased pigs already have entered the food supply either directly because farmers may be trying to pass off diseased pigs as healthy ones,"She has no evidence, but she still expressed it in this way.
Some facts are not credible in the news. The reporter said "At least 26 of China's 33 provinces and regions have announced they found diseased pigs within their borders.".In fact, according to Agriculture Adminisreation of China June 12,2007, only 22 provinces were confirmed to suffer the disease. Also the reporter said, the spreading of the swine disease"driving pork prices up nearly 87 percent in a year and helping push the country's inflation rate to its highest levels since 1996." According to the chief veterinarian Jia Youling in China, the dying rate of pig in China is between 6% and 8% every year, which means 30 to 40 million pigs in a year. The dying amount that comes from blue ear disease is still in the range, and is not powerful enough to affect the national pork price. He also said the reasons of the rising of pork prise lie in the little amount of livestock on hand, the high price of feed, while the disease is not the main reason.
There's one point we have to understand about blue ear disease. This disease is found in the US in 1987, and spread to Europe and Asia in 1991 and 1992. China suffered the pig disease in 1996. The disease was at first threatening the female pig and piglet. Then in 2006 the virus variated and threatened all the pigs.