Chinese Journalism provides a professional education of the highest standard for students who wish to work for Chinese-language print and broadcast media or who plan to specialize in China reporting. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for highly-developed language skills and a mastery of written Chinese. The Chinese Journalism Concentration develops student sensitivity to news values and the structure of a news story according to the internationally accepted standards of journalism. The students start by writing with a given set of facts, go on to news gathering, then feature writing and then the
more demanding forms of reporting and writing involved in in-depth stories, investigative work, editorial writing and news analysis. Throughout, students learn the principles and techniques of editing in many forms, expanding their knowledge by copy editing and the use of computer technology as it relates to Chinese-language word processing.
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