Yunsheng News Thought

Mr.Wang Yunsheng was a well-known journalist and non-aligned patriot.Had been working in the circle of journalism for as long as 50 years,Mr.wang once worked as an editor for Minli,Yishi, Duanbang,Peace Daily,News of the Northern,Business,Ta Kung Pao,National Hews Weekly. From 1941 to 1966 when Ta Kung Pao stopped publication,Mr.Wang worked as the chief editor and then the proprietor of Ta Kung Pao.Due to a great deal of practices during two decades,Mr.Wang grew to be an experienced journalist and an expert of Sino-Japanese relationship research just from a self-taught apprentice.Hence,Mr.Wang Yunsheng earned the credit:A great writer of the world and a patriotic speaker.Made its debut in 1902 and still is circulating in Hong Kong today,Ta Kung Pao is said to be the oldest,the most influential,the most well-known newspaper in the history of Chinese journalism by Fang Hanqi;an encyclopedic work covering the modern history of China by Ji Xianli.Xinji Ta kung Pao stands itself out for its four exclusives which could be simply worded as party exclusive, money exclusive,self exclusive and blindness exclusive and for its guidelines of running a newspaper.During 8 years for being the leader of Ta Kung Pao,characterized by publishing comments by educated people and regarding saving the country as its responsibility,Mr.Wang held fastly the principle of objective,justice and reason and highlighted the independent spirit of a person running a newspaper.He gave expression to the liberalist ideals of journalism:justice,reason, respect for the public and tolerance toward different opinions.Called him as totally a journalist,Mr. Wang once exerted great influence all over China at that time.Current research only focuses on the life of Wang Yunsheng,especially the introduction of Xinji Ta Kung Pao.However,material prior to Wang Yunsheng's joining into Ta Kung Pao and information of Wang Yunsheng after the establishment of the People's Republic of China are rarely seen.Research rarely probes into the writing and editing activities of Wang outside Ta Kung Pao, such as his editing of National News Weekly.This paper is going to make the comments and news written by Mr.Wang Yunsheng when he was the chief editor of Ta Kung Pao as a line to carry out research on the major journalist activities of Wang,his thought on news reporting,his idealism of professional journalist,his liberalist thought. By analyzing the historical incidents and comments of modern Chinese history reported in Ta Kung Pao and via differentiating comments of different periods,this paper will find out the deep reasons. Through the packing up,generalizing and evaluating of Mr.Wang's Thoughts of journalism,this paper tries to get the whole framework of Wang's thoughts of journalism and thus finds out the practical utilization of Wang's thoughts in the cause of socialist journalism.