ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name: Lingzi Zhu
Mobile phone: 13581630864
Email: ens1207@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 psychologist.
In 5 years?
A teacher in college or high school.
When you graduate?
I want to join the army.
Are you interested in a career in journalism
Not at all.
How can this course help you reach your goals?
I've no idea...
Goals for this course:

Are you interested in producing for this course:

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?
Yes.

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.

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.


News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? 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?

Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.
The European Union’s chief criticizes China for not having full market access and protection of intellectual property rights of foreign companies. He warns China that it wil face protectionist backlash if it doesn’t take any action. He says China should live up to its promises as a member of the WTO. He also hopes to negotiate a trade deal with China.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
Today is Kiki's 75th birthday. I'm glad that I've got this opportunity to give the birthday speech. Kiki is my best friend. We've known each other for 50 years. Kiki was born in a small city in Jiangsu Province in 1986. She majored in international journalism. After graduation, she worked in a newspaper as an editor for six months. However, she found she was not interested in journalism, so she quit the job. Then she joined the army because she wanted to improve her self-discipline. She stayed in the army for two years. After she left the army, she went to Beijing Normal University for postgraduate study. She went back to her hometown and teached Chinese in her alma mater. We became colleagues and friends at that time. We worked there until we retired. Besides teaching Chinese, Kiki is also interested in psychology, so she studied it by herself and worked as a psychological consultant as a part-time job. Kiki always leads a happy life, although she has never got married. She loves her job, her friends, and her life. I wish her a happy birthday.


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. I want to interview some girls or young ladies who enjoy watching the L world, an American sitcom about a group of lesbians' life. I'd like to ask them why do they love this sitcom, how about their own sexual orientation, has it been affected since they enjoy this sitcom so much, and do they think that sexual orientation can be changed. 2. I want to interview some university students about their views of life since they are at a critical age, such as what are they living for, and do they believe in destiny or that life is created by ourselves. 3. Since the divorce rate in China has increased in recent years, I'd like to interview some youth about their views of love and marriage, such as do they still believe in love, do they prefer marriage life or sigle life.


PIG DISEASE Key words： Fear-purpose Organizing order Psychological leading We discussed in class that journalists can choose somebody to say something they need for their own views. Now we turn to another key method----the order of the facts. It is obvious to find that the writer of this report is quite fear about this pig disaster in China, and his purpose is to invoke a fluster among the Americans towards it, and might including all the food exported from China, thus give a impression of the American public that China is a country which is full of dangerous illness and the Chinese government is incapable to solve these problems. In addition the writer is quite skillful in creating a nervous and fluster environment among the readers. Like at the beginning “By the end of the summer, all but a handful of the village's 300 pigs had succumbed to the mysterious disease." It was quick, very quick. Moving rapidly from one farm to the next, the virus has been devastating pig communities throughout China for more than a year, wiping out entire herds, driving pork prices up nearly 87 percent in a year and helping push the country's inflation rate to its highest levels since 1996.”and then in the middle mainly targeted the local readers “We are concerned that with international traffic this particular virus could enter other continents -- Europe or Africa or the Americas," and connected with background of the serious of SARS in China. These materials are easily misleading the public thus meet his purpose. The order is magic.Let's see how the author used them. Step 1,Using an exemple how the disease kills pigs to lead the image of the whole country trapped in it. Step 2,How the Chinese government has reacted so far over the disease. Step 3,The skeptical response follows tightly.The dagger is the Chinese government is slow again to share the sample and date with other countries and also its reasons of being slow--business interests and intellectual property issues. Step 4,The fact that the Chinese decline to answer the author questions.Followed up by emphersizing the importance of sharing sample and data, the author is implying some undetected reasons the government posesses which is also a hint of poor regulation. Step 5,After checking out the reason of delaying, the author reports what the government has done--China's sharing on a scintific journal is implied unprofessinal and not of full-scale because the lack of peer review. Step 6,Citing from two experts, the author is saying that the disease is in a fast pace of evolving into a more complicated virus and the spreading into the US market is totally possible. Step 7,The suspectable numbers the government released, in a more tensive reading atmosphere after Step 6, furtherly weaken the government's positive effort of solving this issue so far. Step 8,Two Vietnam people died because of eating pork. Step 9,The government's public education campaign and its relate laws passed might be the objective description of the government's possitive effort. Step 10,The "poor response" of the education--still some part of its pig raisers believe the cause of the death is superstition. Step 11 Pig carcass throught into river is a oppugn that the disease might be far from controled. Choose the facts to arrange into a order that service for the author's purpose. This article is a good example. Facts can be ordered by many ways. Every time the author described the Chinese government's effort, the bad facts which are not that directely relate come up, which successed in forming the image of China's poor regulation over these kind of issue. On the other hand, if a jounalist wants to write a positive report or a praise one for the Chinese government, he can order like that,for exemple: Some of the pig raisers are superstition, but the government has already launched an aggressive public education campaign.In this order, things look more positive. The use of order in this news influences the receiving psychology of the readers. Readers take up the nervous atmosphere first and then receiving some bad information of the spreading of the disease, the lagging of Chinese government to share data and tissue samples and the inconsistency. Impressed by those negative points, though next a few positive ones are presented, readers won’t accept them mentally. Then again the reappearance of negative-selected facts reappear and impact the understanding of the whole new. And from it, we learn that the organization order of news sources is quite important to news. Same materials, different orders could give different understandings.