Practical Significance Of Public Journalism Theories In China

Public journalism is also called civic journalism or citizen journalism. For the first time, the concept of public journalism was put forward by Jay Rosen. Public journalism triggered the reform of journalism by the practice of Wichita Eagle. In 2004, public journalism was introduced into China. The"1860 News Focus"of Jiangsu Satellite TV Station was the first to put it into practice, and the function of Public journalism was fully affirmed. It was regarded as another liberation during the development of our journalism, and has really surpassed civil news. The introduction of public journalism into China has brought new hope to the journalistic studies of China but is public journalism really able to be put into practice in China?First, the concept of public journalism was assembled and analyzed in this thesis. Though there isn't a definite concept of public journalism in America, we could find the main characteristics of public journalism by enumerating various viewpoints. According to the spirits of public journalism, the mess media and journalists should assume responsibility to be not only the gatekeeper but also the guide. That is to say, the reporter should have a hand in the news report and guild the audience. They report the public affairs, and what's more, they should organize and participate in the discussion on public affairs to guild the citizens into the forum for public life. But it has been thought that the form of public journalistic report is against the objectivity of news report and it isn't mess media and journalists'responsibility to encourage the general public to participate in the public affairs. The development of public journalism theory has been accompanied by the dispute all the time ,...