| Nowadays, with the development of society and improvement of market economy, the traditional text reading style has become insufficient to meet the demands of the public, hence, a so called "image reading" times that benefits and popularizes the majority is coming un-cautiously.The News image broadcast, part of the image broadcast, changes brilliantly in its structures during the image reading times. Changes of the broadcast means, which includes digital photography, image transmission, image print etc, is of first among the various changes. Next is the changes of reading habit. The traditional reading style is being replaced by other more particular reading styles, such as eyeball economy, and in addition, with geometrically increase of image sources and the questions of image reality.The image broadcast structure of image reading times brings new challenge to image editing. The competition between different newspaper has fallen into the competition between image editors, that obviously emphasize the importance of image editors. This essay focuses on the position, role, function, and the qualification of image editors, and concludes that image editors shall become the executor of news images, schemer of photography reports, administrator of image quality, prolocutor and director of photographer, creator and designer of web image and newspaper space.Although we have already recognized the importance of image editor, and have set up a job title on this regard, there is a huge abuse within current image editing systems, and a qualification gap with that of western countries.With examples from Vision Center, "South Weekend", this essay goes into future system of China image editing, so as to meet the variable and particular demands of majority in image reading times, and finally gain its position in the future competition between magazines. |