ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Sunny HongjuanSun
Mobile phone13581950485
Email sunny727287@hotmail.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
a correspondent
In 5 years?
a journalist
When you graduate?
take further studay in IR
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
YEA,

How can this course help you reach your goals?
maybe know more about how to write a piece of script properly and efficiently.
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:
well, if this course were arranged in last semester, i would quite like to do more practice on this course, but the problem is that lots of us are preparing for our future(parparing for GRE, TOFFL or exams for post-graduate), so we don't have much time with this although we truly want to grasp more skills on this aspect.
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?
sounds quite interesting.
Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
never ever.
How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
zero,sorry to say.
Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
zeor except photoshop

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CNN
FOX
NPC
PHEONIX
CRI
CCTV

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
INTERNET
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
strengths:
1.fast
2.objective and believable
3.more humanstic
4.in a relatively casual style just like telling the news to a friend.
5.more adroit at news delivery(like: way of hiding bias)
6.enjoy more freedome to critisize the authority.
weaknesses:
since chinese media is learning from its west counterpart,so i have no idea about any advantages.


What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
nytimes.com
FT
economists.com
cnn.com
yahoo.com
xinhua.net
chinese loca newspapers
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
nytimes.com when i need to check important event, but as for WP, not regularly.
ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
china has finished the three-george-dem. the 20-billion-dollor dem was only given a very small celebration for its completeness. the dem was designed to stop flood and produce power, but some environmentalists concerned about the pullution afterward.officials say the dem is starting to stop flood this summer, but there are some work to do about the power facilities.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
Sunny.
on the 75th birthday, as your old friend of 50 years, i am very pleased to deliver a speech in your honor.
sunny and i met in Communication Universtity of China and became friends since then. when we graduated, she chose for further study in International Relations.
in 2020, after taking her master degree, she got a job in Pheonix and beginnging her career as a journalist , during which period, many historical events happend, such like Taiwan's Return to CHINA, and PALESTANE'S pecification. to her most proud, she realised ther dream of being a correspondent in UN.
When she was 45, Sunny migrated to Austrialia with her family and became a freelance for a chinese magzine there, meanwhile, she worked voluntarily for the Confucius College in Canberra until ten years ago, when she and her husband decided to travel around the world.
in all, sunny lives her life fully and successfully.i do hope she can continue with her life with the same passion for life like before. as her dearest friend, at last, i would like to say, happy birthday,sunny.
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.
picth:
china's pork market starts returning to normal
interviewee:
a housewife-Mrs lu who is buying pork, asking her experience during the time when pork's price was too much higher, to give a comparison, to show the market has returned.
and a pig-raiser to interview what's kind of compensation or subsidies he was given for raising pigs.
shots:
1.the pork market: maybe more people than before-through the crowded shoppers to show the the market has become nomal.
2.a shot for the live pigs in the sty and the interview of the pig-raiser, to show that more pigs are available for markets.(as the shot going, the anchor can introduce the measures goverment has taken to increase the supply of the live pigs)

picth2
Abe's goodbye to prime minister
interviewee:
a classmate, asking what does he think of it
Xiaoying liu-a teacher in IR, asking him to predict who maybe the successor, and give an analysis about the new prime minister, especially his policy to china.
shots:
1.Abe's resignation speech,
2.pictures of the likely successers like Yasuo Fukuda and Taro Aso.
picth3
Beijing students do not suffer from the price-hiking
interviewee:
1,a student having pork in the west dinner room of CUC(communication university of china),asking 1>the price of his dinner, 2>whether it has risen up or not 3>does he know the temporary subsidy for students food.
2.the manager of the dinner room, how much he has got from the subsidy, whether it can make up the cost brought by the price hiking.
shots:
the interview with the student who is having pork
the manage who is responsible for the west dinner room

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.
home work for sep.18th
bias hided in the report of the washington post:
the black sentences were my comments on the reports As a result, there is worry that while China is lagging, the virus is quickly turning into a global problem. China does not export pork to the United States, but the virus has already been found in pigs in China's southern neighbors, Vietnam and Burma. This paragraph showed that china maybe not efficient on the disease causing it spread around, which will make americans feel that china’s slowness is threatenning their security. Especially the latter half of the sentence was embeded with the author’s worrying about the “likely” danger to US. "We are concerned that with international traffic this particular virus could enter other continents -- Europe or Africa or the Americas," said Juan Lubroth, head of infectious diseases for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, based in Rome. "We have no firsthand or independent evaluation of the virus or vaccine. It's all been conducted by the Chinese in China." Here in fact, I thought, it also tried to hint to the audience that china is responsible for the epidemic disease for the foreign experts can’t get their firsthands on the issue,but it’s kind of skillful way to hide it by the quotes. While China's previous reluctance to share information may have been the legacy of years of secrecy, its reasons for withholding information this time may be about something else: business interests. For China, one the largest exporters of pork and pork products in the world and the target of recent criticism for the safety of its food and other exports, "there are economic-commercial incentives to cover up," said Yanzhong Huang, editor of the Journal of Global Health Governance and an assistant professor at Seton Hall University. The analysis of the source sounds quite reasonable. But the author linked the chinese pork exportation with the safety of made-in-china food together which alarms the audience again. Vincent Martin, an animal health officer for the FAO in Beijing, said Chinese officials he met with last week said they were not opposed to sending samples to overseas laboratories but would only do so when "intellectual property issues" were resolved. "We discussed this issue at length. . . . We decided to come up with an agreement between the Chinese government and any laboratory that receives the virus, a clear agreement of the two parties that it is just to be used for scientific purposes," Martin said. Among the possible conditions for the sample sharing that are being discussed: that patents and royalties from the development of vaccines and treatments remain the property of China. "There has been a feeling that in the past, some Chinese scientists have not been given recognition for their contributions," Lubroth said. The FAO said Chinese officials agreed to meet again this month to set up a small working group to discuss the details of the intellectual property agreement. The group would also talk about the possibility of convening a regional forum to discuss scientific issues related to the epidemic.(business interests) Although the IPR issue was taught by US actually,the action that chinese government takes it as the condition for sharing the samples of the epidemic gives the audience,especially those accusing china with abusing human rights, the impression that china is trading people’s life for property. Maybe this kind of issue also happened in US or some other countries, but the reporters perhaps would not deliver it in this way. As with all viruses, the more the blue ear pig disease spreads, the more money there is to be made in a vaccine. China would not make money on such kind of disaster, but the sentence stroke me with such kind of implication. Mao Changqing, an analyst with CITIC Securities in Beijing, estimates that the blue ear vaccine market in China's domestic market alone is worth roughly $105 million this year and -- assuming the virus continues to kill -- up to $265 million next year. One area that animal disease experts say they want clarified is the numbers. According to the most recent Chinese government estimates, 68,000 pigs died from blue ear disease, 175,000 were slaughtered and an additional 1.5 million were vaccinated in the first eight months of this year. But in a typical year, China loses some 25 million pigs to disease. So if the official numbers were true, China would be having better-than-normal year for pigs, not a worse one. Perhaps it’s not bias, but I should say that the contrast is quite good by using the principle that let facts to speak for itself. However , the author added another sacarstic sentence, and it’s clearly showed her subjective opinion. In Vietnam, where 33,000 pigs were infected in June and July, according to the government, local media reported that two people died in northern Vietnam after eating infected pork. Reached by phone in Hanoi last week, Hoang Van Nam, deputy director of Vietnam's animal health department, said that government investigators determined that while the pair did eat meat from sick pigs, they were not infected by blue ear disease but by Streptococcus suis, which can go from pigs to humans. Here although the couple was not died of blue-ear-virus, the journalist still included the case in her report, why, she again wanted to show that the disease for pig is also dangerous for humans.


ASSIGNMENT five Final analysis Enid, Nini, Sunny. Viki, Vera This report, in general, is quite impressive and adequate in sources and supportive materials, although it has showed some authors bias and opinions. In the following, our group want to analysize it from the advantages and shortcomings of the report. Advantages: I.Variety of sources: local media, government report, some wire service, personal interview, internet. 1. interviews with the farmers whose pigs suffer from the epidemic, very vivid and trustful, and this way of reporting connected the audience with individual victims and prompt audience’s sympathy and interest to read on. 2. in the report, we can find that the reporter has a bias for the NGOs(like AFO PloS on line, CITIC) or the individual person who speaks against the government like Huang from an american university. She quotes lot of experts from NGOs to demonstrate what she wants tell the audience. 3. from the report, we can see lots of information are from the government although the author puts some doubt on them, but still, there are voices from the chinese government, so the sources are balanced. The reporter is very skillful in the use of sources, she knows when to use what, for example, she wants to show that some related departments are covering the truth, she chose Chen Qingming, secretary general of the pig breeding division of China's Association of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, who fully knows the pig disease and the situation in china; another typical example, is about the slowliness of sharing the samples with the foreign experts, the reporter chose an analyst from CITIC to convery the audience that it’s because the large profit in the vaccines. II. use of statistics The reporter used lots of numbers which are quite impressive and convincing. Besides, the numbers are used to support some of her assertion, like she thought that the numbers given by the government are false, she put all the related numbers there, and let the audience to do a comparision himself(let the fact to speak itself). III. skills to hide the bias When you go through the whole report, you will feel that the government is not quite good, but at the same time, you can’t deny that the report gave lots of supportive materials. Our group thought the reason is that the author is quite skilled at hiding bias. For example, when you read the government are slow to share samples with foreign countries because of the great economic interest, you feel that the government is selfish and valuing to much on money instead of the human welfare or rights, but the reporter quotes an analyst from CITIC, very authoritative, you just can’t deny that. The reporter says that the chinese government contends they are doing their best to inform the public, but at the end of the report(Many said they did not know the name of the disease that has affected the pigs and that much of what they had heard may be superstition), you can see the government is not doing its work well since the farmers are not knowing the facts of the disease. IV. good structure Although the report are lengthy, the audience won’t get lost, they can follow the author’s logic clearly. Introduction of epidemic situation in China-àresponses from different groups(chinese government, NGOs, farmers) àconflicts from the responsesàselect the material supportive to the intention of the author&quote some authoratives or experts to explain some confusion aroused by the different responses(such like chinese slow action of sharing samples)àaffects from the disease in CHINA and the neighbouring countries. Disadvantages I.the imbedied bias influenced the author’s judgement For example: the death number of the pigs of the dieseas, the author says that the numbers do not match, so she got the conclusion that the government may give out the false number, but in fact, the number maybe resonable. One area that animal disease experts say they want clarified is the numbers. According to the most recent Chinese government estimates, 68,000 pigs died from blue ear disease, 175,000 were slaughtered and an additional 1.5 million were vaccinated in the first eight months of this year. But in a typical year, China loses some 25 million pigs to disease. The number given out by the government maybe not the total number of all pigs died in a year, they are the numbers relating with the disease, but the author thought the numbers are the total number. II.give some improper comments and bias Although the bias we have analysized too much, so here, we wouldn’t make too much fussy. In all, the advantage valued more than disadvantages, so the report is very good, and the author is very experienced and skillful.