Chinese Media Writing

AY2024/2025 Semester 2

This course teaches the techniques of writing news and reportage in Chinese. It focuses on guiding you to use Chinese to engage in richly factual, professional, and creative media writing of various forms. These include interview writing, news features, precision news writing, investigative reporting, radio and TV news writing, and Internet news writing. This course will incorporate various current affairs in discussions to enhance your sensitivity to wordings found in all types of news and reportage in the Chinese context. As a result of this course, you will learn to complete news reports written in precise and succinct language to a deadline in class.