Inheritance And Variation: The Present Situation And Future Of China TV Investigative Reporting

With rapid development of science and technology, and with accelerating and updating concepts, today's era is a restructuring and transforming era. However, meeting the need of the era, Investigative Reporting has started and will boom in the future.Investigative Reporting, which is called "exposure" reporting in western countries, is an important type of in-death reporting. It's a special type of reporting in western newspapers, and particularly is used to expose social darkness, governmental behind-plotting, large enterprises' criminal acts and Triad's inside stories and so on. Sometimes an investigative reporting can rock the whole nation and even the world. In recent years, because of the Nixon administration's "Watergate", Regan administration's "Iran gate" and so on, the investigative reporting has rocked the whole world. Now, investigative reporting, interpretative reporting and objective reporting stands in its place fairly, and has become the mainstreamed reporting type in western press.In China, with the deep development of reform and open-up, democracy and politics have been improved a lot. Meanwhile, some investigative reporting masterpieces have appeared in news reporting. Especially, since 1990, with the starting of CCTV Topics in Focus, News Probe, the craze for the investigative reporting has spread at all levels and all types of media, particularly TV media. Thus, Investigative Reporting becomes more and more popular among Chinese people. Compared to western investigative reporting, Chinese investigative reporting, on the one hand, has the same ideas as those in western countries. But on the other hand, in practical operation, from form to content, it has changed to a certain extent, and already has formed a kind of TV reporting with its Chinese characteristics. So that it gets the unique quality of China TV investigative reporting. At the same time, TV Investigative Reporting is facing all kinds of difficulties and challenges, and it is very difficult to operate it systematically, normally. Besides, there exist different kinds of controversies.According to excellent programs--CCTV Topics in Focus, News Probe and Shanghai TV 1/7, the paper will analyze the developing situations and states about its inheritance and variation to western investigative reporting, even outlook its bright future. It's believed that the TV Investigative Reporting can play its unique role in constructing socialist harmonious society.