| China News Award is sponsored by the All-China Journalists Association, which is the highest award for national outstanding works .And it is approved by the Central Propaganda Department as a permanent national journalism awards. Its former opened in 1980, which was named a good assessment of the National Journalism Awards. Its name was changed to the China News Award in 1991, which is an annual award. It has been choosen through public appraisal for 19 times until 2009.As the highest award in the press of our country, the selection and award-winning works inevitably become the embodiment of mainstream ideology of China's socialist society. From 1991 to 2009, the China News Award crossed the boundaries of history, spanning the 19 years in which the political and economic reforms were carried out vigorously. It recorded and witnessed the developments and changes since the 1990s, politically, economically and so on.As the highest award of China in the press, China News Award is the optimization selection process, in which the news works of various types and subjects released in nationwide media each year are chosen. The value analysis on China News Award selection and the award-winning works will help our understanding of the award and its works deeply and detailly, and also contribute to carry out the award more scientifically.Based on the introduction of the evolution of China News Award, this paper analyzes its social value by studying some selected awarding-winning works and discusses the identity of its political and economical theme. At the same time, this paper analyzes its value and significance in the news theory and practice, and then through the comparative analysis of China News Award and the Pulitzer Prize, the limitation of China News Award should be identified so that the ideal path of achieving the highest award value of China News Award should be better explored.Domestic scholars have not analyzed it from the perspective of value analysis. So this paper analyzes its social and professional values from the perspective of value analysis and clarifies the features of its selection and the factors of award-winning works, which can not only enrich the theory of journalism and communication and provide the guidance to the media practice, but also explore the mainstream ideology through studying the award-winning works. This is the innovation of this thesis. |