Course Description
The course is designed to guide students in reading and understanding English-language news, and help them learn the basic skills in translating news into Chinese and writing news reports in English. The students will read news articles on different topics to explore the basic elements of news and learn vocabularies and expressions often used in news writing. The students will practice translating/editing/rewriting English news into Chinese and practice presenting news events in English, both verbally and in written form. Comparisons between the styles and angles of foreign press and local media will be discussed. Other than text, news photos, graphics, videos and animation will be introduced. Current events will also be discussed in class. Lectures will be given to convey the message that the aim of real news business is to inform, to educate and to serve and that good journalists are honest, balanced, responsible and well-informed and they honor professional ethics.