Study On The News Selection Of Metropolitan Newspapers

The selection of news is not only a core problem of news theory and practice, but also an important issue under discussion of journalists and the world of journalism. As all the things are changing all the time in this whole world, facing such a large amount of information, it is of more importance of news selection. Especially for current situation, being challenged by the new media, encountering a serious crisis, from the perspective of news selection, metropolitan newspapers need to be more inventive, locally and specially designed, hence, more readers and broad space for development will be achieved.Looking at the literature researches about metropolitan newspapers at present, most of them are regarding the definition, development, origin, media audience objectives, market competition, etc., however, the research on news selection is insufficient. Therefore, it becomes a significant subject to be studied and discussed on the news selection of metropolitan newspapers. No selection, no news. Whether the news selection is good or not, it directly affects the preference of media audience objectives, so as to the circulation, and finally affects the development trend of newspaper. Metropolitan newspaper has its own market positioning and target audience objectives. For the aspect of news selection, the importance should be emphasized on political news, as well as visually appealing and interesting, at the same time, get closer with audience objectives, so that The Citizen Newspaper can be built by readers’ love and trust. Different metropolitan newspaper has different news selection. This article will mainly discuss the metropolitan newspaper Dalian Evening News which has the largest circulation in Dalian of Liaoning Province. In order to fill up the blank of metropolitan newspaper research on news selection, we will discuss it through empirical analysis, from the simple to the deeper study.