JMSC 0046

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JMSC 0046

• Introduction to Television
• Journalism and Media Studies Centre
• Week One
• January 15, 2009

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Your Instructor

• Jim Laurie
• Director of Broadcasting Program
• JMSC
• Office Eliot Hall G-21
• Phone [phone]
• jlaurie_at_hku.hk
• Meetings
• by appointment only

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This Week

• An overview of this course
• Survey course
• Based largely on lectures and
• Recommended readings
• Purpose
• To analyze television news
• Explore its origins, practices influence

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Course Overview

• Our Perspective
• International TV English language
• Roots in America and Britain 1930s
• Developments in Asia in last 35 years
• Essential reading - our WEBLOG
• See http//jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/
• Interactivity, changes, readings, lecture notes,
  questions

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Course Overview

• Attendance mandatory
• 50 grade based on Final Exam
• Exam from lectures and readings
• 50 based on Research Projects
• To be developed in weekly workshops or tutorials
  held every Friday
• Tutorials will be held at the Shum Reading Room
  in Eliot Hall

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Workshops or Tutorials

• First tutorials will begin after Chinese New Year
  or Friday 6 February
• You must choose a workshop
• Tutorial A 0930-1025Tutorial B
  1140-1235Tutorial C 1400-1455
• A Saturday session possible if needed
• Sign up sheets next week

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Workshops or Tutorials

• In tutorials, students will be expected to
  develop research projects on agreed areas of
  broadcast news study
• Work to be presented in two forms orally and in
  written papers.
• Oral presentations to be done first
• Approx 15 minutes in length

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Workshops or Tutorials

• Oral presentations will begin in March
• After spring break aka reading week
• Written papers based on oral reports will be due
  by e-mail on or before 24 April
• Papers about 2,500 words or no more than ten
  pages.

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Course Content

• Areas of inquiry and lecture topics
• History of Radio
• History of Television
• Public Service Broadcasting
• Commercial TV, Ratings, Advertising
• 24 x 7 News
• Chinese Television
• International Coverage of China on TV

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Course Content

• Particular issues of ethics and responsibility in
  television news coverage
• War and television
• The evolution of technology
• Convergence TV, the internet,
• on line video journalism

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Doing Well

• Attending each lecture
• Taking good notes
• Analyzing critically
• Independent thinking
• Solid reading and research
• Good choice of research topics
• Good clear English verbal written

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What is news?

• What is news and how do you get it?
• An American definition Pulitzer
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v2U8Okb16okE
• A BBC Version
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/4780167.s
  tm
• See also http//jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/tvintro09/lectu
  re-1-january-15th/

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What is news?

• News is the first draft of history
• News an assembly of new facts relevant to our
  lives
• Key questions when considering news
• Audience
• Worthiness
• Objectivity or fairness
• Currency

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What is news?

• Who decides?
• Traditional newspapers, news agencies, and
  magazines and their writers and reporters
• Radio and TV broadcasters
• Professionals and Amateurs
• People on line bloggers vloggers

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What is News?

• In TV news beyond audience relevance,
  worthiness, currency, etc. One other
  consideration may determine news. What is it?
• Picture
• Above all Television is a visual and emotional
  medium

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What is News?

• In making the news six stages
• Finding
• Gathering
• Writing
• Assembling
• Ordering
• Broadcasting

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How do you get YOUR News?

• A student survey
• To be done this week
• To be discussed and analyzed next week. give
  out forms
• Give as honest and frank answers as possible

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How Television has changed!

• Videos
• Early Television News
• TVB - 32 years ago October1977
• BBC in the 1950s
• CBS - in the 1950s

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JMSC 0046 Next Week

• Television evolves from Radio
• Homework
• Listen to RTHK
• http//www.rthk.org.hk/index_eng.htm
• Listen to BBC World Service
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
• Listen to American Public Radio
• http//www.npr.org/

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JMSC 0046

• Introduction to Television and Television News
• Journalism and Media Studies Centre
• End

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JMSC 0046

• Introduction to Television and Television News
• Journalism and Media Studies Centre
• End