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Research On The Production Of "Slow News" And The Dissemination Of Mainstream Values ​​in "Fast Information"

Posted on:2015-09-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y K ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208330452452143Subject:Journalism
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Represented by the Internet,"new media" rises abruptly,which brings muchthreat to the traditional media,especially to the newspapers.To improve thetime-efficiency of the news, tremendous aggressive and eye-catching manuscriptsoccupy much of the newspaper layout. Hence, traditional editors are keen to save thepublic reading market that are taken up by the traditional media, therefore, they puton many civic news and grassroots’ news. On the contrary, these lead to a lot ofproblem, such as violence and bloodiness,even vulgar frequently are seen by thereaders. As a result, traditional media are facing the declination and vulgarization. Atthe same time, traditional media’ s supremacy has come to less importance as thepublic reading habits transforming. Worse, the culture of grassroots initiate numbersof social ideological trends.We witness the decay of Socialist Core Values due to thelack of the responsibility of mainstream media in the general media circumstance. Asthe Times starts to base on "slow news", the general media and academic zones inChina take the benefits that editing slow news under fast information circumstancesas they reshape media itself. So the new orientation of China’s media can be describedas taking news’ deepness against pursuing blindly speed, strengthening news’ valueagainst vulgarization, and reshaping the news’ value by news ideology.As a peculiar method of reporting, slow news nowadays stay at the period thatmore theoretical than practical. This thesis, firstly, proceeds with researching thebackground of purposing the slow news’ editing and planning, then focuses on thenew media threat to the traditional one,last discusses the inaccuracy inself-positioning of traditional media, and the losing of social responsibility amongtraditional media. Meanwhile, it also analyses the necessity, actionability as well asthe practical significance in rebuilding the traditional media’s supreme and recallingthe social mainstream values. Also, through taking slow news compared with the"deep report",and the "research report", the thesis defines the slow news, namely, following three stage in the basic news releasing: themes establishing––journalists’participating in all procedures of one news event––upholding the mainstreamvalues.Above all, basic news releasing stages set the foundations in several reportingapproaches,for example,the immersing report,the social researching report and theobserving report that are supported by the study of sociological news.One of thecharacteristics of slow news reporting is that journalists must contrive to slow newsexploring and planning reasonably and actively, meanwhile, advocating socialist corevalues is the first and last aim of making slow news, which also is the touchstone ofjudging one item of news is of great value or not. Last, this thesis also discusses howto put slow news theory into practical use. The author makes a empirical research inKunming Metropolitan Times(KUNMING NEWSPAPERS COOPERATION,LET.)to analyse many specific issues in editing slow news, namely, they are projectevaluation, journalists security systems and macro-control during the reporting. it issignificant to mention that the analysis is strictly follow the news publishingprocedures: topic selecting, interview,editing and publishing. In the end, this thesispurposes a preliminary form for slow news, that is,through reporting and editing withall strength, it is possible to inspire multi-media interaction to broaden the affectionsof news itself or encourage public press, social integrity and political colleague toparticipate in.
Keywords/Search Tags:slow news, news planning and editing, traditional media, mainstream value
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