On Sept. 27 morning David came to introduce online journalism.
It was only a draft introduction compared with online journalism classes for the following six weeks.
He made ocular demonstration on websites and blogs, which was on the purpose of thinking about the design and structure of web journalism.
In the afternoon we were taught status of media in Britain.
It is highly developed. Although a part of people in Beijing read newspapers when going to work or back home by tube, the proportion here is much higher.
All different media including TV, radio, print, magazine etc play an important role in people’s daily life.
There are three principle news agencies in Britain, Reuters, the Press Association, and AFP-Extel News Ltd.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) dominates the airwaves. BBC 1, BBC2, Independent Television (ITV), and Channel 4 (C4) are the four national channels.
There are more than fourteen hundred newspapers, and the three best sales are The Sun, Daily Mails, and The Daily Mirror.
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Principles review - week 1 day 2
On Sept. 26 we got the news tree.
Starting from here, we got to know the basic structure of a journalism report and to write in accordance with it.
The topic of first writing exercise was to compare and to contrast my home town with Harrow, which was quite a simple one considered now.
But on that day I was put into a difficult position that I did not know how to do the research.
The more anxious I was, the fewer ideas I had.
And also four hundred words were “too much” for me under the pressure of time.
As a result, when you explained this exercise that afternoon, I realized that my thinking was too narrow.
Yet, I can do the sort of practice much better nowadays.
Starting from here, we got to know the basic structure of a journalism report and to write in accordance with it.
The topic of first writing exercise was to compare and to contrast my home town with Harrow, which was quite a simple one considered now.
But on that day I was put into a difficult position that I did not know how to do the research.
The more anxious I was, the fewer ideas I had.
And also four hundred words were “too much” for me under the pressure of time.
As a result, when you explained this exercise that afternoon, I realized that my thinking was too narrow.
Yet, I can do the sort of practice much better nowadays.
Principles review - week 1 day 1
On the very beginning day of this module, Sept. 25 2007, we and Deborah discussed the situations of British media as well as our own countries’.
Well, it is true that to know about foreign country’s culture and professional background knowledge as an international student is a key link, while a difficult part as well, which was one of my misgivings choosing to learn liberal arts overseas.
Actually, in my point of view, the learning remains in progress.
On that day we also for the first time made presentations about home country’s media. What is obvious is that media in China has long way to go towards international average level.
That is also the reason why we Chinese students are here to learn about the most developed and leading edge media ideas.
Well, it is true that to know about foreign country’s culture and professional background knowledge as an international student is a key link, while a difficult part as well, which was one of my misgivings choosing to learn liberal arts overseas.
Actually, in my point of view, the learning remains in progress.
On that day we also for the first time made presentations about home country’s media. What is obvious is that media in China has long way to go towards international average level.
That is also the reason why we Chinese students are here to learn about the most developed and leading edge media ideas.
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