Research On Edgar Snow's News Activity And Influence In China

Before and after the founding of new China, as a journalist, Edgar snow did a lot of news activities. He wrote a lot of news reports. During the Anti-Japanese War, he had been to many cities in China and did many reports about the war, political and public life at that time. After new China was founded, he visited China three times and reported the socialist construction achievement of new China.This paper takes the experience of Edgar snow in China as background. It researches on the news reports of Snow in the Anti-Japanese War and the effect of his reports in the Anti-Japanese War; researches on his three times visits to China after the founding of new China and the influence of his activities to the relations between China and the United States. After that, it explores the impact and function of the practice Snow did in China. Overall, we can understand and evaluation Snow objectively. The paper studies the literature and uses the method of qualitative research, analysis snow's specific news activities in China, does a summary to his concept about news profoundly. Further more, it explores what kind of news literacy the media people should have.After the research, the paper found Edgar Snow was a great journalist. He had the brave to report the true that what Japanese did in China. He criticized the policy of Nationalist Party. He did a lot for the the Anti-Japanese War. During the three times visits to the new China, he used to talk with the leaders of China and reported the construction achievement. He did a lot to improve the relationship and establish diplomatic relations between China and the USA. What's more, his acute sensitive to the news, the character of value the true and protect the true of the news, his abundant knowledge and excellent skill of writing, no afraid of difficulty, made his success.Nowadays is an information period. The role of news media and responsibility of journalist is more and more important. As a journalist, what news accomplishment he should have, how to protect the readers, that is a question. Edgar Snow is a good model to our journalists.