The Study On Feature,problem And Countermeasure About Wenchuan Earthquake News Photos Of South Metropolis Daily

The photos in the newspapers have been made larger with a huge number, when the newspapers become more and more thick. Photos can give audience mass message simple and clear. At the same time, it is faster than letters in comprehension to audience. It is a problem have to be faced that the newspapers' message is more and more in number with the time used in reading papers is less and less for the rapid pace of life. And photos have been accepted by newspaper office an audience for his advantage in communication. So it has been said "the era of photo reading" was coming. And the research in news-photos became a focus in journalism.Southern Metropolis Daily,which based in GuangZhou south of China, has been affected by the foreign all the time. So it shows very bold and flowing tide in photos, and accumulated much experience and lessons, which can be learned by others. The lessons are very good that what Southern Metropolis Daily behavior in the WenChuan Earthquake. With the quantitative analysis to Southern Metropolis Daily in the WenChuan Earthquake reporting period, we have summarized features in photo report:rapid response; reformed leader's photo report mode boldly; handle decisive moment precisely; use subtraction principle ingeniously;apply comparative approach agilely; put many news simulation pictures, and so on. On the other hand, it had exposed some problem:deficiency in humane care; the drop in letter description; the photo editor's fault.Whether it is true that the "era of photo reading" has been coming, there is a fact that photos have been gave more and more attention. The problems what Southern Metropolis Daily have in photo using are the same to the others in China metropolis papers. So, we proposed how in the chapter 4:give up the old news value and accept the education in humane care; adopt technology method to desalinate the bloody scene; photo reporter and letter reporter study the other's skill; strengthen the effect of photo editor; treat "image value" and "news value" dialectically. At the end, we hope that the paper will give some inspiration to how to use picture in metropolis papers.