Liquid Journalism: Research On Mainstream Media Coverage Of The COVID-19 In A Media Environment

This research uses Zygmunt Bauman’s "liquid modernity" concept to understand the current crisis facing journalism and its response,and through the development of domestic media that is representative of the media--The Paper’s analysis of the production process of reports related to the new crown pneumonia epidemic found that in the new media environment,news content production,reporting mechanisms and presentation methods have the characteristics of "liquidization".In the context of liquid modernity,the media conforms to technological and social changes.Although it recognizes that the media is only a node in the communication network under the new social form,it has not given up its role as an expert in information circulation.At the technical level,the media is constantly changing to adapt to the agility and lightness of the liquid society.The inherent patterns and rhythms are broken,and investigative reports are made in a dynamic way.Visual expression and product operation thinking have become the new news production normal.In addition,in any era,professional and serious news is a rigid need of the society,and the institutional media is an important supplier of news products.It uses the professional concept of news as a barrier to maintain the professional ethics and standards of news.The full text is divided into five parts.The first part introduces the research background and significance of this article.Secondly,it sorts out the theoretical research on "liquid modernity" and the transfer of "liquid modernity" to journalism by domestic and foreign scholars.The meaning of "liquid" journalism,news curation,and media integration;the second part mainly summarizes the migration of "liquid" discourse in the news field and the characteristics of "liquidization" presented by mainstream media in the process of media transformation;The third part mainly analyzes the "liquidization" of the content production of The Paper in the new crown pneumonia epidemic report from the number of reports,the topic of the report,and the empathy interaction of the report;the fourth part analyzes the internal coordination group of The Paper and the " Featured columns such as "Mathematics Lesson","Wenba",and "The Paper" analyze the "liquidization" mechanism of news reporting under the new situation;the fifth part is about the "liquid journalism" under the transitional environment of the financial media,mainly From the transformation and continuation of journalism in the transitional period,as well as the rethinking of journalism professional concepts.