The Study On Shao Piaoping's Journalistic Achievements

As an outstanding journalist,a well-known political commentator and one of the first generation scholars studied on journalism in modern history,Shao Piaoping had a legendary and controversial life.He had spent all his life in saving the nation through news and press,turning the press into a kind of social instrument is what he struggles for in his lifetime.Holding the post of a correspondent of ShenBao in Beijing, publishing the'Beijing Special communications'and founding'Beijing newspaper'brought him great reputation.The major accomplishments achieved by Shao Piaoping are as follws:First,he founded the translating and editing news agency,which shaked off the monopoly of news sources by foreign news agency.Second,he had involved in organizing the Journalism Institute of Peking University and he served as the reasearch mentor,he took a lead in carring out the journalism education and academic research.Third,Shao Piaoping founded the 'Beijing Newspaper' and various of supplements,which exerted great influences.Shao Piaoping's major thought achievements are reflected in his ideas on the freedom of the press,his viewpoints about journalists and journalistic practices.He learnt from the Western concept of liberal press,started with the relationship between the freedom and the legal system of news and press.Shao Piaoping boiled down the freedom of press to the freedom of speech.He advocated the independent newspaper,and regarded the news as the 'social general will'and the voice of public opinion'. Shao Piaoping held that the moral character is a vital quality for a journalist,he emphasized that news must be veracious and interesting.Shao Piaoping advocated that the journalists should establish a sense of responsibility,he concluded the key point of gathering news as the diplomatic activity of the reporters. Besides,Shao Piaoping also had deep and unique thoughts on news writing,education and running business.Shao Piaoping's news practices success mainly manifested in news gathering,newsletters and news comments.He carried out the news gathering with simple and clear guiding ideas.His skills in interview were rather brilliant and diversified.His newsletters were characterized by the distinct tendency,the serialized layout and the strong features.The news comments he wrote were close to the current situation,and have a unique writing style.He wrote the truth with a profound irony and combined the narration with argumentation.His argumentation was rather brilliant and meticulous.The contemporary significance brings by Shao Piaoping lies in his understaning of the jouralistic status and functions,his tries out and practices on the news gathering,his viewpoints and fulfillments about media business strategies.Shao Piaoping's news achievements rooted in the historical context,the academic field and with clear-cut critics and revealings,besides,a prominent feature of liberalism.The differences of society nature,the environment and media characteristics demand us to take creative transformation on Shao Piaoping's ideas and works.Thus,with an aim to push forward the development of journalism and the promotion of relevant studies and reserch on it in China.