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Jackie: You're listening to talk about English with Jackie Dalton, Callum
Robertson and our two guests today: Anna McKane – journalist, author
and trainer and Stefan Roemermann a blossoming journalist from
Germany and English learner.

Callum: We've just heard from Jonny who's just about to go off on his dream
job. And this week on our website we've been asking you what your
dream job would be. We've asked actors to voice a couple of the
messages that you've sent in, and the messages we've chosen all relate
to news to fit in with our news theme.

Jackie: The first one is from My Nguyen in Vietnam. What does she want to
do?

My Nguyen
I am a journalist in Vietnam and correspondent is also my dream job. I have visited
many places in my country, but I have not gone abroad yet. I always dream of visiting
other countries, meeting foreign people and learn about their culture, their languages.
When I was a child, I wanted to be a tour guide when I grew up. But now, I'd love to
be a reporter. I think everyone has their own dream job, but just a few people can
make their dream comes true.

Jackie: Well, that's one listener who, like Jonny, wants to travel the world as a
reporter. What about Shawn from China, what does he want to do?

Shawn
I would say only a few people in this world are doing what they want to do at work,
and most of us are just doing our jobs that do not suit our interests. For me, my dream
job is to be an anchorman on our national television, broadcasting English news to
viewers around the country and the rest of the world

Jackie: Shawn wants to be an 'anchorman'. What's that?

Callum: (explains – someone who introduces news and reads news reports -
include term news anchor)

Jackie: Finally let's hear a message from Radek in Poland. Why did he change
his mind about what he wanted to do?

Radek


As long as I can remember I always wanted to be a war photographer. When I was a
young boy I watched a lot of documentary movies about professional photographers
all around the world. It simply fired my imagination, but later I realized that it's
almost impossible for me, to be a war photographer because of the danger. Therefore,
4 years ago I started taking photos in my country, about ordinary people and their
lives. I know now that I don't need shots of tragedies to take a good photo. I want to
be a "simple" photo journalist.

Callum: Radek always wanted to be a war photographer but then he realised it
was too dangerous. So instead, he takes pictures of people in his own
country.

Jackie: And what he says about wanting to be a simple photo journalist is
really interesting – news doesn't just have to be 'big stories'.

All: (discuss)

Jackie: Let's have a reminder of some of the vocabulary that's come up so far.

Recap
to keep an ear to the ground - to make sure you always know what's happening – "I
try to keep my ear to the ground so I don't miss any big news stories."

motivating yourself - to be able to do things without needing to be told to – "I'm
hopeless at motivating myself, I work much better if I have a boss telling me what to
do."

to breathe down someone's neck - to constantly watch them and tell them what they
should be doing – "My boss is always breathing down my neck, I wish he'd just let me
get on with my work!"

a news anchor - someone who introduces news and reads news reports – "And our
news anchor this evening is Mike Malone."

Jackie: In an earlier webcast, we talked about how journalism is changing and
part of that related to the idea of citizen journalism – Callum, could
you remind us what that is?

Callum: (explains- news created by ordinary members of the public)

Jackie: An area of citizen journalism that's recently become very popular is
blogging. What's blogging? Let's have a reminder from language
expert professor David Crystal

Crystal
In 2001, I wrote a book called, Language and the Internet, and I didn’t mention the
word 'blog'. Well, this year, I have a second edition out. In it goes, that’s how fast the
internet moves.

Those who blog, bloggers, carry out the activity of blogging, setting up a blog site,
with a unique web address in order to do so. It’s an abbreviation of ‘web log’; a
phrase that was first used in 1997, both as a noun and as a verb, a web log.

It’s essentially a content management system, a way of getting content on to a
webpage; it’s a genre, a bit like diary writing, or bulletin posting. I mean, people add
their posts or diary entries, with some regularity, if you’re a blogger you do it daily at
least, often several times a day.

So at one extreme there’s the personal diary, kept by an individual who wants to tell
the whole world about his or her activities, or interests and opinions and so on. And

then at the other extreme, there’s the corporate blog, maintained by an institution,
such as a radio station or a music store.

Well, there are even more coinages about to come, it seems to me. The totality of all
blog sites in the world is known as the blogosphere. And if you have a blog and it
goes on for too long, be careful, because somebody might describe you as having
blogarrhoea!

Jackie: We're going to hear from a London blogger, who calls herself Annie
Mole. Like most bloggers, she blogs as a hobby – something she does
in her spare time for pleasure.

Callum: Annie blogs about one thing in particular and that's the London
underground or the tube. She writes about what it's like travelling on
the tube, any news about the underground and so on.

Jackie: Traffic to her blog suddenly increased in July last year. Callum, could
you explain that word 'traffic' in this context.

Callum: (explains - the quantity of people visiting a website)

Jackie: Well traffic to Annie's website suddenly went up just over a year ago.
Why was that? Listen to find out.

Annie

Callum: Well traffic to Annie's site went up because of the London bombing. It
went from about a thousand a day to nineteen thousand.

Jackie: We're going to hear more from Annie. This time, try to answer this
question: Why does she think people like to turn to bloggers as a
source of news?

Annie

Jackie: Annie said people like to follow blogs because you're hearing from a
real person – they’re giving their own reactions and "have no axe to
grind?" Callum what does that mean?

Callum: (explains)

Jackie: As the day went on Annie started getting messages and calls – where
does she say they were coming from?

Annie

Callum: Annie says hundreds of people from America started sending her
messages, and even the New York Times picked up on her blog, as
well as newspapers in Australia.

Jackie: Well you can read some of Annie's blog by following the link on the
right side of our webcast page. Meanwhile, time for a recap of some
the new vocabulary that's come up

Recap
Citizen journalism - news created by ordinary members of the public –
"Citizen journalism is becoming more popular now that people can record video
pictures with their phones."



A blog - a diary on the internet –
"A lot of my friends have blogs, it's a great way to find out more about their lives."

Internet traffic - the quantity of people visiting a website –
"Traffic to my blog has gone down, it must be getting boring!"

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