Study On The News Spirit Of Agnes Smedley

News spirit is the basic attitude and basic concepts of the news communicationactivities held in the main news activities, and it is also a kind of pursuit and belief. It isthe combination of the ideology, not only is reflected in the news practice, and condensesin the news works; but also plays an important role in the growth process of Journalismand journalists.Strengthen the news spirit construction, improve the level of news spirit ofthe journalists, not only can promote the benign development of media industry, but alsocan promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.Agnes Smedley is the foreign journalists based in China, the famous writer, socialactivist of Chinese revolutionary war. For the pursuit of truth, the maintenance of socialjustice, the realization of human freedom and peace, she was not in fear of hardships anddangers, break through the heavy news of the Kuomintang blockade, got into the warfield, started investigation and interview, reported the real situation of China’srevolutionary war to people all over the world, and wrote many excellent news text.Smedley’s news practice and news works reflect and condensate her news spirit as ajournalist. It is the news spirit which dominates Smedley’s news practice, so that she canmake excellent news reports, which stir in China and the whole world at the time.Smedley news spirit is mainly composed of five aspects. It is a high sense of socialresponsibility, the pursuit of freedom and independence of spirit, the pursuit of true spiritof reason, the maintenance of social justice, the spirit of humanism spirit. News spirit as aconsciousness system, comes from practice, resulting in a certain social environment. Theformation of Smedley’s news spirit is not accidental, but it is the result of manyfactors.Specifically, the formations of the spirit are early life environment, news practice,social factors, western culture. Smedley’s news spirit has a certain historical value, notonly to guide and support of Smedley’s news practice, so as to produce a number ofinfluential news works, but also affects other reporter’s news activities during the sameperiod. In the contemporary era, the realistic significance of Smedley’s news spirit is alsohigh. We can not only inherit Smedley’s news spirit kernel, and the spirit of thecontemporary journalists also has a very good inspiration and education action.