The Character And Writing Method About American Editorial Writing

With the development of globalization, Media credibility and influence is theimportant part of a country’s soft power. Therefore, the role of the editorial stand themedia’s views and attitudes to an event, it represents a media’s credibility and influence.Either in China or the United States this cognitive are common. As the mostauthoritative news awards in United States, The Pulitzer Prize editorial writing, can beused as a research model, have representative and authority. Editorial writing was one ofthe four originally major prizes in Pulitzer prize, it showed the status and importance ofeditorial writing.The study of the Pulitzer editorial in our county almost from the macroscopictheory. We will pay more attention to what the editorial say, but ignore how to say. Sothis article mainly research the style and writing method, summarize Pulitzer editorialwriting method. This article chose the recent6years Pulitzer prize editorial winningwork: From2006to2013(editorial writing prize opened in2008and2012), a total of60articles, Translate it into Chinese, did the research and analysis of stylistic featuresWriting methods, to find out how it said. In this paper, the research on the Pulitzereditorial tries to break through linguistics and journalism study contradiction, Fullyabsorb the American news academic research method, Pay attention to the quantitativeanalysis. Each person has his specialty, In the road towards soft power country, we haveto consider How to play the media influence effectively, How to adapt to theenvironment that everyone can express freely and disintegration of authority and able tobe in place on the international stage. On the basis of forefathers’ research, explorePulitzer editorial work’s style, Writing methods and the principles will be helpful to ourThe transformation of editorial...