Week Five - News Report Interview

Chapter seven and 11 quiz
This week's reading was only a short one, so it was very easy to comprehend and get a good mark on the quiz. My first attempt I got 8/10 because I was confused on the question stating to never start a sentence with a numeric figure. Always spell the figure in full if it begins the sentence. I forgot about this and simply stated 14, instead of fourteen. Now I fully understand. The rest of the questions were quite easy. 

Newstory

My boyfriend and mother both agreed today that I am the most important thing to them. The pair also explained what their biggest passions are.

My Mother, Shareen Schultenkamp, said that the most important thing for her is for me to be looked after in every single way.

"I want to see that you do well in life and are happy

"My biggest passion in the world is travelling and experiencing all the adventures from it".

My boyfriend, Mitchell Spreadborough said that to him the most important thing to him was me and our future together.

"The thing that the means the most is my future with you and I hope it will be a good one

"Manchester United and football is my biggest passion

"I love staying up late and watching a game. It's what I look forward to during the week".

My mother and my boyfriend are each enjoying their life as it comes and look forward to witnessing their own futures.

Here is my twitter link for tweets. I took a photo of each of my interviewees and posted a photo to Twitter and a one sentence grab from the interview. Below is the screenshots.

https://twitter.com/YSchultenkamp

Overall, I found this activity quite interesting. However, the interview itself was not that exciting as the questions I had to ask were not really that newsworthy. But I guess it was an exercise to just learn the principle and get good at it! This was great practice for the upcoming assignment 1 where we have to write a news article. Hopefully my new stories in the future will be much more interesting!

The hotel of doom - A fantastic article
My article that really stayed with me can be found here:

News Article - Welcome to the Hotel of Doom

After reading this article, I couldn't stop thinking about it and it really stayed with me. The article is about an undercover English journalist practically breaking the law by pretending to be a businessman in the capital of North Korea. In the article, he travelled to dangerous North Korea and joined a tour group. Whilst he was there, he wrote down the places he was taken, what it was like, the people he saw, the environment and so on. The most interesting part was how the journalist sneaked out of his hotel to visit a hotel that has been under construction for over 30 years. The hotel was once the tallest in the world but ceased construction due to bankruptcy. However, the construction started again this decade and was supposed to open later that year in 2012. The journalist risked his life to sneak inside the hotel and see what was inside. He found only a concrete jungle and nothing else. The hotel has been such a controversial issue all over the world.

Source: CharmJokes, 2012
The Ryugyong Hotel: Before and After completion.

Seeing as the media is not allowed in North Korea, it was very interesting to read the story of this journalist and his adventure. The detail of the article was amazing, he noted down the majority of his trip. His background information and research was so spot on and he knew exactly what he was talking about. The conventions of journalism are all very evident in the article, such as indirect and direct quotes. I could simply not stop reading the article!

References:

CharmJokes 2012, The Ryugyong Hotel, digital image, viewed 11 August 2015, www.charmjokes.com

Parry, S 2012, 'Welcome to the Hotel of Doom', The Daily Mail, viewed 11 August 2015,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245054/Welcome-Hotel-Doom-The-3-000-room-monstrosity-Kim-Jong-Uns-starving-dictatorship-North-Korea-foreigner-stepped-inside--now.html