A Study Of Online News Editorship

The development of online news communication makes the editorship system of online news come into being gradually, which enhances the needs of summarizing it in practice and studying in theory. This thesis will initically study the system theoritically along with studying it practically in the view of the study of professional work of online news communication in China. This thesis consists of five parts.Part I . From Online News to Online News Editorship.Because of its information sevice function, internet is closely related to news and treated as "the fouth media" whinfc communicates news report. After seeking the evolution of the concept of online news and defining it, the thesis analyses seven characteristics and the value system of online news communication, and makes it explicit the connotation of online news editorship and its main types.Part The Planning and Organizing of Online News Communication------theFirst Study of Professional Work.Presently, the planning and organizing of online news communication include chiefly three parts: the planning of the news web-site, making of editing principle and the planning and organizing of online news report. Under the guide of planning principle, the planning of the news web-site experiences three stages including investigating and analysing, planning and editing, planning and imporving. When making editing principle, we should include definition of net-user, definition of communicating content and style of the news web-site and communicating level. And then define the referents of news report planning and show plan-practicing graph and according to different standards, classify news report planning into three types. The value and fact premise of news report planning and deeper report planning are explained in theory. At last, taking"eastday. com" for instance, the thesis discusses particularly the way to reform the news resource in internet circurmstance.Part HI Word and Photograph Editorship of Online News-the Second Studyof the Prefessional Work.There are special standards and particular requirements for choosing, descerning, amending and adjusting online news manuscripts. Online news title consists of four elements such as main headline, summary headline, picture headline and additional element. There are five kinds of methods of making news title and some special requirements by internet communication. Online news photograph editorship is in large the same as Newspaper photograph editorship. As voice and picture editorship developes slowly, the thesis only intorduces its basic process.Part IV. Online News Web Editioship-the Third Study of the ProfessionalWork.In general speaking, the news web has four kinds of fundumental structures, including the linear structure, the form structure, the gradation structure and the net structure. They compose all kinds of news web pages. Every web page contains two types of the consititutive elements: the content constitutive elements and modelling constitutive elements. The principles of web arrangement and design include unity principle, balanced principle, subjective principle, comparative principle, proper-layout principle and concise principle. There are such four ways of layout as "T"type, " " type, "" type, "" type and artistic type. The arrangement of web page's content is accomplished according to time-dimension and space-dimesion.Part V. Conclusion: the Characteristics of Online News Editorship.There are four characteristics of online news editorship: unity, all-time, progressive-increase and the trinity of information supply, guidance and censorship.