News English Students and Investigative Reporting

     The 2010-2011 News English students are getting into investigative reporting during this second semester.  Here is a listing of areas they'll be investigating and which students will investigate each area:

Does the U.S. government have a secret UFO project?

Hunter Lee 951507004

Eric Chan 951507902

Leo Huang 951507025

Samansa Chen 951507009

Dianne Huang 951507030

What is the truth behind the chemtrails controversy?

Jennifer Cheng 951513032

Ruby Huang 951507028

Sharon Lin 951513038

Vivian Chang 951507023

What is the truth behind the Sean Lien shooting?

Lily Chen 951507010

Anita Chen 951505040

Amy Chen 951507903

Susan Liao 951513040

Alice Tai 951507033

What is the truth behind the Chen/Lu shooting?

Albert Peng 951501022

Columbus Chen 951507906

Mika Qiu 951507034

Is HAARP changing the weather?

Kristen Tseng 951513051

Rita Lu 951507014

Caresse Chen 951513037

Leslie Peng 951507015

What is the truth behind the events of September 11, 2001?

Jane Huang 951507017

Dick Chen 951507012

Rebecca Dunn 941507056

Sophia Lin 951507022

Nicole Lee 951507005

Does Bigfoot exist?

Joseph Lin 951507027

Neal Liao 951507011

Sunny Yu 951507029

Ivy Lin 951507003

Krista Cheng 941507015

Has the cure for cancer been found but hidden from the public?

Isis Huang 951507901

Eileen Wang 951507018

Andrea Tseng 951513042

Joyce Liao 951513046

What is the real purpose of the FEMA camps?

Lillian Huang 951513041

Peggy Wu 951513048

Jill Chang 951513049
Amber Chien 951507002

Who is responsible for polluting the rainforest in Ecuador? Chevron or the Ecuadorian government?

Eunice Wu 951513045

Joanna Lee 951507007

Miki Ji 951513047

Sandy Peng 951507024
Jill Cheng 951507016

What are the sources of weapons used by Mexican drug lords?

Tina Lai 951507020

Katherine Liao 951513050

Locate some missing children

Kiki Liu 951507905

News Students Write about Taekwando Scandal

Here:

Hotline

Index News

Colorful

JARS

Old School

News English on-line Newspapers 2010-2011

These are the names and links for the 2010-2011 News English on-line Newspapers:

HOTLINE

http://hotline99.blogspot.com

951507017 Jane Huang, Editor-in-Chief
951507010 Lily Chen, Asia-Pacific News
951507901 Isis Huang, World News
951507004 Hunter Lee, Advertising Department
951507016 Jill Cheng, Sports News
951507027 Joseph Lin, Travel
951513050 Kristin Tseng, Arts and Leisure
951513051 Katherine Liao, Health
951507032 Jennifer Chang, National News
951507002 Amber Chien, Local News

INDEX NEWS

http://index-newspaper.blogspot.com

Editor-in-Chief Albert Peng 951501022
Advertising Department Rita Lu 951507014
Asia-Pacific News Eric Chan 951507902
World News Lillian Huang 951513041
National News Chicken Huang 951507028
Local News Neal Liao 951507011
Art and Leisure Eunice Wu 951513045
Travel Anita Chen 951505040
Sports News Dick Chen 951507012
Health Eileen Wang 951507018

COLORFUL

http://archer-rabbit.blogspot.com

Caresse Chen
Miki
Mika Qiu
Samansa
Ivy
Joyce
Susan Liao
Sharon Lin
Peggy
Sophia Lin

OLD SCHOOL

http://old-school-news.blogspot.com

Editor in Chief -- En Huang Hwang 951507030
Food News -- Yuo Ting Peng 951507015
Art News -- Nicole Lee 951507005
Sport News -- Tzu Chi Liu 951507905
Social News -- Shin Ying Peng 951507024
Asia News -- Vivian Chang 951507023
Advertising -- Hzu Hui Tai 951507033
World News -- Rongo Yu Chang 951513049
Travel News -- Ya Ting Lai 951507020
Local News -- Kiki Shen 951507026
International News-- Krista Cheng 941507015

JARS

http://fifijonnaandrealulu.blogspot.com
951507007 Joanna Lee Editor-in-chief
941507056 Rebecca Ding Travel
951507029 Sunny Yu National News
951513042 Andrea Tseng Arts and Leisure
951507906 Columbus Chen Sports News
951507025 Leo Huang World News
951507013 Kent Huang Local News 

News English Mid-term Exam, Autumn 2010

     Each team should have already started their own on-line newspaper, giving the name of the paper, the logo, and the masthead.  Your mid-term grades will be determined by what I see on your site.  Your grades will depend on how well you learned the following lessons:

1. What is News?

2. Newspaper 0ffices

3. How News Reporting Really Works

4. Reliability of News Reports

5. Newspaper Structure

6. Headlines

7. Inverted Pyramid Style

     Your newspaper should look as much like a real newspaper as possible.  Your news should come either from actual events or from work generated by other classes.  For example, the Advertising and Marketing classes are good sources for business news, product news, other business and product related news, and advertisements.  The Travel and Tourism English classes are good sources for travel news, business news, and advertisements.

     Remember than the Internet is also a good source for news.  The kind of news you report will depend on what kind of newspaper you're producing.  For example, a community newspaper may also have world news, but their focus is on the community.  A business newspaper will have other news, and so on.  

     Don't be afraid to use your imagination and come up with a kind of newspaper you've never seen before.  For example, have you noticed that most newspapers are created with men in mind?  If your target readers were women, would you really have four sports pages for a twenty-page newspaper?

     The Advertising and Marketing classes and the Travel and Tourism classes are playing the same game that your class is playing.  It's a game with a purpose.  The more you can play it with one another, the more you'll learn in your subject area.

News English Teams 2010-2011

951507007 Joanna Lee, Editor-in-Chief
941507056 Rebecca Ding, Travel
951507029 Sunny Yu, National News
951513042 Andrea Tseng, Arts and Leisure
951507903 Amy Chen, Local News 
951507906 Columbus Chen, Sports News
951507025 Leo Huang, World News
951507013 Kent Huang, Advertising Department

951507030 Dianne Huang, Editor-in-Chief
951507033 Alice Tai, Advertising Department
951513049 Jill Chang, World News
951507023 Vivian Chang, Asia-Pacific News
941507015 Krista Cheng, National News
951507026 Kiki Shen, Local News
951507005 Nicole Lee, Arts and Leisure
951507905 Kiki Liu, Sports News
951507020 Tina Lai, Travel
951507015 Leslie Peng, Health/Food
951507024 Sandy Peng, Editional- Page Editor

951507017 Jane Huang, Editor-in-Chief
951507010 Lily Chen, Asia-Pacific News 
951507901 Isis Huang, World News 
951507004 Hunter Lee, Advertising Department 
951507016 Jill Cheng, Sports News 
951507027 Joseph Lin, Travel 
951513050 Kristin Tseng, Arts and Leisure
951513051 Katherine Liao, Health
951507032 Jennifer Chang, National News 
951507002 Amber Chien, Local News

951513038 Sharon Lin, Editor-in-Chief
951507003 Ivy Lin, Travel
951507009 Samansa Chen, Local News
951507034 Mika Qiu, Sports News
951513040 Susan Liao, Asia-Pacific News
951513046 Joyce Liao, Advertising Department
951513048 Peggy Wu, Health
951507022 Sophia Lin, Arts and Leisure
951513037 Caresse Chen, World News
951513047 Miki Ji, National News

951501022 Albert Peng, Editor-in-Chief
951507014 Rita Lu, Advertising Department
951507902 Eric Chan, Asia-Pacific News
951513041 Lillian Huang, World News
951507028 Chicken Huang, National News
951507011 Neal Liao, Local News
951513045 Eunice Wu, Art and Leisure
951505040 Anita Chen, Travel
951507012 Dick Chen, Sports News
951507018 Eileen Wang, Health

Glossary of News Terms

Arts and Leisure: Arts can refer to fine arts, folk arts, photography, or crafts. Leisure refers to hobbies and pastimes other than sports.

Artist’s rendering (See Composite drawing)

Artwork (see illustration): any drawing or painting of something or representing something. It may or may not be an illustration.

Attribution:

Banner: The title of the newspaper, stretched across the top of the first page.

Banner headline: a headline that stretches all the way across the page.

Bed (as in “putting the newspaper to bed”): When the work on that day’s issue of the newspaper is completed and ready to be printed, they say they’re putting the paper to bed.

Bi-weekly (see weekly, semi-weekly, and daily): Once every two weeks

Blurb:

Breaking news: News as it is happening.

Broadside: A one-page newspaper. Almost all newspapers now have more than one page.

Byline: The name of the person who wrote a newspaper article. In newspapers, it’s usually listed at the beginning of the story. In news magazines, it may be listed at the very end.

Chart (see graph and illustration) A chart is a kind of illustration showing how two or more things compare to each other, relate to each other, are similar to each other or how they differ from each other. It differs from a graph in that graphs use numbers in the comparison.

Column (1) When we speak of a newspaper column, we mean that a person regularly writes the same type of article that appears in the same part of the newspaper each time it appears.

Column (2) When we speak of a column as part of a newspaper page, we mean something like a row, except that it runs vertically instead of horizontally.

Column inches: That’s how the length of news stories and articles are measured. When you measure how many inches long a story is, you measure how far down a column it goes.

Companion piece/Companion article: When you have two articles on the same subject, one is usually considered more important than the other. The less important one is called a companion piece or a companion article. (See Sidebar)

Computer simulation (reenactment)

Copy editor

Daily (see bi-weekly, weekly, and semi-weekly)

Depth

Editor

Editorial (see Op-ed)

File footage/File photo

Filler/Filler article

Graph: (see chart and illustration)

Hard news (see soft news and human interest)

Headline

Human interest (see hard news and human interest)

Illustration (see artwork, chart, and graph)

In house (or in-house)

Insert

Inset

Inverted pyramid style

Journalistic style

Kicker

Lead time

Magazine

Manuscript style

Masthead

Medium (plural: Media)

News Release

Obituary (or Obits)

Op-ed

Photo credit

Photo journalist

Product placement

Section

Seminal

Semi-weekly (see weekly, bi-weekly, and daily)

Side bar

Tabloid

Third person

Weekly (see bi-weekly, semi-weekly, and daily): Once a week.

Wire service

Glossary of News Terms

Anchor (also Anchor Man or News Anchor)

Arts and Leisure: Arts can refer to fine arts, folk arts, photography, or crafts. Leisure refers to hobbies and pastimes other than sports.

Artist’s rendering (See Composite drawing)

Artwork (see illustration): any drawing or painting of something or representing something. It may or may not be an illustration.

Attribution:

Banner: The title of the newspaper, stretched across the top of the first page.

Banner headline: a headline that stretches all the way across the page.

Bed (as in “putting the newspaper to bed”): When the work on that day’s issue of the newspaper is completed and ready to be printed, they say they’re putting the paper to bed.

Bi-weekly (see weekly, semi-weekly, and daily): Once every two weeks

Blurb:

Breaking news: News as it is happening.

Broadside: A one-page newspaper. Almost all newspapers now have more than one page.

Byline: The name of the person who wrote a newspaper article. In newspapers, it’s usually listed at the beginning of the story. In news magazines, it may be listed at the very end.

Chart (see graph and illustration) A chart is a kind of illustration showing how two or more things compare to each other, relate to each other, are similar to each other or how they differ from each other. It differs from a graph in that graphs use numbers in the comparison.

Column (1) When we speak of a newspaper column, we mean that a person regularly writes the same type of article that appears in the same part of the newspaper each time it appears.

Column (2) When we speak of a column as part of a newspaper page, we mean something like a row, except that it runs vertically instead of horizontally. For example, most of the type on this page is one column wide. The type in this part of the page is two columns wide.

Column inches That’s how the length of news stories and articles are measured. When you measure how many inches long a story is, you measure how far down a column it goes.

Companion piece/Companion article When you have two articles on the same subject, one is usually considered more important than the other. The less important one is called a companion piece or a companion article. (See Sidebar)

Companion piece/Companion article: When you have two articles on the same subject, one is usually considered more important than the other. The less important one is called a companion piece or a companion article. (See Sidebar)

Computer simulation (see reenactment)

Copy editor

Daily (see bi-weekly, weekly, and semi-weekly)

Depth

Editor

Editorial (see Op-ed)

File footage/File photo

Filler/Filler article

Graph: (see chart and illustration)

Hard news (see soft news and human interest)

Headline

Human interest (see hard news and human interest)

Illustration (see artwork, chart, and graph)

In house (or in-house)

Insert

Inset

Inverted pyramid style

Journalistic style

Kicker

Lead time

Magazine

Manuscript style

Masthead

Medium (plural: Media)

News Release

Obituary (or Obits)

Op-ed

Photo credit

Photo journalist

Product placement

Section

Seminal

Semi-weekly (see weekly, bi-weekly, and daily)

Side bar

Tabloid

Third person

Weekly (see bi-weekly, semi-weekly, and daily): Once a week.

Wire service

News English Syllabus

1.   What is News?

2.   Newspaper 0ffices

3.   How News Reporting Really Works

4.   Reliability of News Reports

5.   Newspaper Structure

6.   Headlines

7.   Inverted Pyramid

8.   Review

9.   Mid-term Exam (Autumn)

10. News Writing Style

11. The role of Photos and Illustrations

12. Hard news, Soft News, Filler, and Sensationalism

13. Hard news

14. Crime

15. Business and Finance

16. Editorial Page (op-ed)

17. Review

18. Final Exam (Winter)

19. Obituaries

20. Soft News

21. Sports

22. Travel

23. Health and Beauty

24. Arts, Leisure, and Entertainment

25. Newspaper Columns

26. Review

27. Mid-Term Exam (Spring)

28. Advertisements and Public Service Announcements

29. Product Placement Ads

30. Writing News Releases

31. Classified Ads

32. Television News

33. News Magazine Reporting

34. Comics

35. Final Review

36. Final Exam