ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Stephanie(Sun Yu)
Mobile phone 13488778482
Email Stefanie2tim@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?
I hope I will have earned enough money by then so I don't need to work any more.

In 5 years?
Entertainment Journalist or war correspondent,hopefully.

When you graduate?
Go to the States for further education,or maybe South Korea.

Are you interested in a career in journalism?
Yes.

How can this course help you reach your goals?
I have only had one class so I don't know yet.Maybe it will help me to know how to write a broadcasting script without feeling miserable.

Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

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.
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.
I have worked as a producer of a documentary made together by German and Chinese students in this year's Summer Academy.


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
60 minutes.(CBS)
世界周刊 World Weekly.(CCTV NEWS)

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
Not so much.
Yes,over the internet.

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
More freely to express your own opinions,maybe.
Not very objective,I guess.

What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
MSNBC,CNN,PEOPLE Magazine

Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
No.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
China's environment is getting worse and worse.The pollution problems cost the country more than 200 billion a year. The main reason is China's fast development and local authorities' imcompetence.To resolve this problem,China needs legal protection for the environment.But without top leaders' support and local officials' cooperation,the outlook is not very optimistic.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
To many people, April 13th may be just an ordinary day, but to the people who knows Sun Yu, it would always be a day to be remembered and mourned.
In the time when tabloids filled with scandles, sex, and murders rule the entertainment media, as an entertainment journalist, Sun stands firmly by the truth and decency of journalism. Instead of digging dirt, making up stories, and stalking celebrities as the other entertainment journalists always do, Sun focuses on portraying a realistic world of the entertainment industry. In her articles, Hollywood actors are no longer stars who live the luxurious lives, chasing fame and fortune, but ordinary people that make you feel familiar with and close to. To some extent, it is proper to say that Sun changes the environment of the whole entertainment media.
As a colleague and personal friend of Sun, I see her not only as an extraordinary reporter, but also a dear friend, a caring mom, and a decent human-being. So at this special moment, along with Sun's dear family and friends, please allow me to send her our love and memory, hoping that it would accompany her to the other world.


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.