Study On The Mechanism Of Newspaper Photo Editing In China

Modern newspapers have gone into"the time of reading pictures". Because of the advantages of picture communication and the change of readers'needs, many newspapers have put raising the level of pictures and visual communication efficiency into agenda. For the lower level of picture editing of China newspaper, clear understanding their development environment and the specific situation and finding out the enormous gap between ours and foreign advanced media become an urgent and important task.This article takes the mechanism of photo editing as the theoretical framework, on the basis of discerning the related concepts, cards the history of newspaper picture editing in China. The paper points out the task of an excellent photo editor is to ensure that the media get high quality photos, to make the readers deeper understand the photo and the report. Meanwhile, the mechanism of photo editing of typical Chinese newspapers such as The Beijing News\Oriental Morning Post and Southern Metropolis Daily is analyzed. But there is a helpless fact that our overall level of photo editing still low. In order to enhance the photo's role in readability and competitiveness, establish a modern newspaper photo editing mechanism, the author put forward some countermeasures and suggestions for the industry. For example, establish modern management and operation mechanism of photo editing, clear the duties and powers of a photo editor , establish photo editor's training system and so on.This paper followed the general methodology of social science principles, such as practice principle, system principle, quantitative research with qualitative research, principle of comprehensiveness and so on. At the same time, as an applied topic, the paper used its own methods, for example: social investigation, case analysis, literature review method and so on.