The Current Situation And Countermeasure Of Journalists’ Professional Ethics In China

Under the rapid development of market economy and economic globalization,the communication channels of the news is more extensive, and the quantity ofdemand that the public can accept the news is also increasing. In this process, sincesome journalists could not resist the temptation under the wide variety of money orsome relevant authority, which cause the serious issue of the professional ethics. Itis can be seen that the professional ethics of journalists can reflect the overall levelof ethical issues in this country, after that it might affect the socialistic constructionof the whole country.This essay attempts to study the actuality of journalists’ professional ethics, diginto the causes of ethical problems, and put forward correct countermeasure, aimsto explore the ideological and political education and other subjects of overlappingareas, expand their field of study, improve the actual effect. Therefore, study onjournalists’ occupational moral status in China has a certain theoretical value andpractical significance.This essay includes four sections: The first section is the introduction whichintroduces the significance of the topic, research status, research methods,innovation and shortages. The second section is the explanation of the concepts,analyze the concept of journalists’ professional ethics, principles, requirements andeffects based on their notions and working characteristics. In the third section, it isthe in-depth analysis stage. Primarily, it makes a list that the overall development ofthe professional ethics of Chinese journalists’ is doing well. It illustrates the issuethrough the relevant aspects such as enhancing the authenticity of the news, raisingthe awareness of social responsibility, paying attention to the humane care andreflecting the professional dedication. After that, it presents the journalists mayhave some ethical problems in current situation, namely it is the lost of criterion. Those problems mainly present the following aspects:the egoism tendencyserious,the lack of authenticity of news reports, the malignant competition betweennews media，legal concept weakness. Through the analysis of the status of a varietyof news workers occupation morality, and then from the environment, industryfactors, the quality of personnel and other aspects to analyze the journalistoccupation moral anomie. The fourth section is the countermeasure to the lost ofcriterion in the journalists’ professional ethics. The countermeasures are concerningabout the following six factors: Doing the maintenance of information order,enhancing the journalistic ethics education, accelerating the legislative news,establishing the self-regulatory mechanism and punishment mechanism, improvingthe journalists’professional diathesis.