The Narration Of In-depth Reports

Since the 1980s, in-depth reports have become one of the most important ways and means of news in newspapers and television news. The most important characteristic of In-depth reports is narrative expression besides significant subject, profound connotation and detailed material. So, it is significant to make a systematic research on some theoretical issues in in-depth reports narration by using some theories relating to the narratology for reference, which would advance the theory of news writing. Proceeding from analysis of some news works and some latest achievements in narratology, this thesis focuses on the narrator, narrative time, narrative angle of view and narrative structural pattern. There are some original ideas on news narrative artistry in the thesis. In the past, narrators were usually classified into open narrators, hidden narrators and absent narrators. At the same time, this thesis does not agree that reporters equal narrators. Referring to the classification of narrator in literature narratology, this thesis distinguishes narrators from reporters according to the relationship between them in In-depth reports. Finally, the thesis puts forward some new viewpoints on narrative artistry and the reclassification of narrative in advance in in-depth reports.