What professional qualities should journalists have?

The professional qualities that journalists should have include: the habit of continuous learning; Persist in the pursuit of truth; An objective and fair attitude; Accurate and concise writing; Willing to endure hardships; Rich and extensive knowledge; Tolerance and kindness; Thrift and moral qualities.

The four qualities that journalists need to strengthen at present include: legal quality, ability to obtain information, professional quality and humanistic quality.

Details are as follows:

Legal quality

With the continuous advancement of China's legal system construction, knowing the law has become an essential quality for every citizen, and as a journalist, he shoulders the heavy responsibility of guiding the correct direction of public opinion.

However, with the prosperity of the newspaper market, the guiding ideology of individual newspapers has deviated in the market competition, and there are many problems in positioning, style and regulations.

200 1 The number of China news media publicly punished by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the General Administration of Press and Publication and the General Administration of Radio, Film and Television is also increasing.

At the same time, the frequent occurrence of false news and unfair reports, as well as the phenomenon that the media's judgment goes beyond judicial trial, also show that journalists' legal awareness needs to be improved urgently.

In order to win in the fierce news competition, it is understandable that news media should pay due attention to their own economic interests when reflecting and guiding public opinion.

However, if improper or even illegal measures are taken to expand circulation, attract advertisements and maximize economic benefits, objectivity, impartiality and social responsibility will be ignored when reflecting and guiding public opinion. In the long run, the credibility and prestige of the media in the hearts of the audience will be greatly reduced, which will affect the development of the entire news media industry and will also have an extremely adverse impact on the personal development of journalists.

To solve this problem, the most effective way is to improve the legal quality of journalists, not only to establish the concept of the legal system, but also to master the legal knowledge that should be known and understood, to be good at news reporting and public opinion supervision within the scope stipulated by the Constitution and all laws and regulations, and to bear corresponding legal responsibilities once violating laws and regulations.

They have always stressed the need to interview and run the edition according to law, and asked editors and journalists to be vigilant at any time and place, especially in areas that often involve intellectual property rights and citizens' rights and interests.

In addition, they also invite newspaper lawyers from time to time to analyze and explain the cases, key cases and newly promulgated laws and regulations in stages or in the year, and insist on carefully checking and improving the work according to judicial suggestions.

The author also thinks that the corresponding legal courses should be set up in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of journalism and communication major in order to cultivate the legal quality of future journalists as soon as possible.

Ability to obtain information

In the work of journalists, the most meaningful and challenging thing is to get news clues.

In the past, news communication education also provided many methods to find news clues, but today, with the rapid development of knowledge economy, these traditional methods alone can no longer meet the requirements of social development. To find good news clues, we must also have strong information acquisition and processing capabilities. Therefore, it is necessary for journalists to master some information science and information science knowledge.

For a long time, a large part of the news clues obtained by journalists, especially some major newspapers and party newspapers, are "dispatching workers", that is, attending press conferences at the invitation of some departments and enterprises, and then reporting accordingly. This form of work lacks initiative and creativity, and it will also develop the inertia of journalists after a long time.

Another common way for journalists to work is to look for news clues at random and report what happened in the news place.

This form has the characteristics of flexibility and timeliness in the short term, but news reports pay more and more attention to planning, and the "agenda setting" function of news communication is paid more and more attention. Only paying attention to the report of unexpected events is far from meeting the needs of the audience and the overall needs of journalism.

Therefore, journalists can learn and apply some research methods of information science, such as social investigation, bibliometrics, mathematical analysis, systematic analysis and evaluation, and historical research methods. And conduct in-depth research and careful arrangements for their own news reports.

Only by doing sufficient preparatory work can we ensure the high quality of news reports.

In short, the level of information utilization has become an important standard to measure the level of journalists.

Specialization level

The so-called "reporter specialization" means that every reporter should strive to become an expert in his own reporting field.

In the information society, the division of labor is more detailed, and the knowledge and culture level of the audience is improved. It is an inevitable trend for journalists to transform into experts on the basis of omnipotence.

Expert journalists are characterized by having all the basic qualities of ordinary journalists and professional knowledge in a certain field.

Judging from the actual situation, journalists with professional backgrounds are increasingly favored by the media and news organizations.

Although the professional composition of journalists is still mainly news and Chinese, the proportion of talents with economic, management, legal and political backgrounds entering the journalism industry is rising.

Most newspapers are not limited to majors when recruiting, and some financial newspapers specialize in recruiting talents in economics, management and other related majors.

"China Business News" made it clear that it does not pursue the timeliness of news, but devotes itself to in-depth reporting and background reporting, pursuing hot spots, pursuing profundity and vividness, and pursuing novelty and uniqueness.

Its requirements for professional knowledge can be imagined.

Humanistic quality

Someone once put forward the "hive theory" of the quality of media people, that is, they have a fiery mind, an ocean-like mind, a steel backbone, a mother's love, a hound's keenness and an iceberg's coldness.

These six aspects constitute a hexagon, which is the basic framework of an excellent media person.

It is like a beehive, and the media people are the bees that grow in this hive.

The more symmetrical the hexagon of the hive, the higher the quality of the bees and the better the honey produced.

The author thinks that this also vividly illustrates the requirements for the humanistic quality of media people to a certain extent.

Of course, it is impossible to improve the humanistic quality of journalists overnight.

The only way is for news organizations to learn from the successful experience of foreign universities, optimize the news curriculum and teaching mode, reduce the courses that teach writing and editing skills, and increase social sciences and humanities such as economics, politics, law, history, linguistics, etc. The goal is to make journalists have more available abilities and develop into a broader space.

Journalists-commonly known as journalists, refer to full-time journalists of news media organizations.

At the same time, it generally refers to journalists, including editors-in-chief, journalists, announcers and correspondents. , is a timely, true, effective, objective and fair dissemination of news for the public occupation.