The Connections And Interactions Between Journalism And Literature

Journalism and literature, although their concepts are defined completely differently, are parts of social ideology. However, there are many similarities between them such as the requirement of authenticity and skills of writing. The similarities and differences between journalism and literature can also be investigated from narratology:the different essential factors of communicator and the audience is one of the differences between journalism and literature.The news-discourse structures establishing mirrors literature-expressing and this can be considered as the interaction between journalism and literature.There are many excellent news reports we can find to prove this special interaction. News reports take examples from literature works in methods of expression and skills of narration.It improves the readability of news reports and makes them become abundant and expressive.Numerous valuable findings can be gotten from macro perspectives--the developing processes of journalism and literature. Through the history of Chinese modern literature.Newspaper, as the major media then, has obviously accelerated the development of the modern literature.Articles written by the writers have appeared in newspapers.Meanwhile galaxy of modern writers shaped and their composing action have much to do with journalism.The Four Supplement Sections of Newspaper during the era of the May 4th Movement(1919, an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal,political and cultural movement influenced by the October Revolution and led by intellectuals having the rudiments of Communist ideology)——XueDeng,supplement section of Morning Paper in Beijing,JueWu,supplement section of JingBao in Beijing have made monumental contributions to the development of modern literature.The contributions are changing the type and style of writing and popularizing the Modern Vernacular Chinese.The emergence of electronic media made lots of sense in creation and diffusion.In view of "The media is the message" which is brought forward by Marshall Mcluhan in his work---understanding media. Literature keeps changing under the influence of broadcasting and television.Especially the appearance of world-wide-web in 1980' provided a shortcut to connect readers and works together which is easier, swifter and much more convenience.Traditional publishing methods were broken. The cost of distribution and propaganda has been cut down and the efficiency of communicating and creation has been increasing. However negative consequence may come about if the dividing line of journalism and literature become obscure. The phenomenon,which is the literature over depend news medium, also deserve our profound consideration.