ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Yanfei Wang
Mobile phone 13810413529
Email dadalovee@hotmail.com

Add photo here:

Personal Web page

Blog address

Survey:

Career goal:

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?
Journalist, teacher, public servant
I do not have a clear goal.

When you graduate?
2008
Are you interested in a career in journalism?
yes
How can this course help you reach your goals?
Teach me how to select the material
the good way to write
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

Podcasts? ok
Video segments for YouTube?ok
Newspaper or wire stories?ok
A Blog?ok
A regular news broadcast?no

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
sure.

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.
used to be editor, journalist,reporter in Zhejiang international china channel as a intern.
How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)
I can't remember.
Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.
I have a good sense to select the news for certain program, and I am able to use some edit software.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
CCTV news channel & NPR News
How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
only can see certain segment over Internet.
Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
Foreign news broadcasts is more objective.
while Chinese broadcasts has a good function to serve its government and people.
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
XinJing Newspaper
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.
The number of polio cases in Afghanistan has increased 4 times than before this year. It has 24 cases so far in 2006, comparing to 9 cases in 2005. All cases except one were in the southern porcine where were shaken by the country’s worst fighting in almost 5years. Officials said. The main reasons of the increase polio cases are increasing violence, unregulated travel across the border with Pakistan and difficulty in establishing local health service and poor communication with community leaders.

OK

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.

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.

volunteers in 2008 Olympic games
interviewee: volunteers both from school and society
leaders of Olympic association
CPI rise in china
interviewee: residents, goods seller, leaders of related department

employment situation for 2008 college graduates
interviewee : students who will graduate in 2008
managers from some enterprises
teachers who guide how to choose jobs for students

YOU NEED TO SHOW WHY ANYONE OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY CARES. THAT MEANS WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS THESE PEOPLE WOULD SAY. THESE PITCHES WOULD NOT BE SELECTED IN A NEWSROOM. THE BOSS MIGHT TELL YOU TO DO MORE RESEARCH AND TRY AGAIN.

ASSIGNMENT 5 INCOMPLETE



From judging the "pig news", we've learned that when we analyse a news story, first we should clear about the source of of quotation and the accuracy of the statistics. Then we may judge is there any logic problems, and whether we can be persuade to believe the conclusion the author made by the facts and detailed the story provides.
when we read or report the news, we may be alert of the news bias. The author may never write down his own words, but the data and the quotations he provided are fully express his idea over the issue. so when we do our reporting, we can be use the facts and source which is favor of our idea to help us to make the story much more persuasive.

In terms of bias and fairness, we strongly think that the report's sources are mostly one-sided.
He did quote information from the Chinese government side, but mostly statistics, while figures don't really speak for itself if you don't give an explanation. Like the figures of dead pigs. There are plenty of Chinese government announcement and press releases. Why he just cited certain figures?
We think western style of reporting seems very fair, with all the piling of facts and figures and quotes. But actually it's not necessary the case. The angle of choosing materials makes a lot of difference.
For the detailed analysis the reporter turned to organizations outside of China, or at least people with the opposite view to the Chinese government. Why didn't he cited more explanation from the Chinese government side?
Hence, we do believe the writer does have bias to a certain extent.