What are the basic qualities that journalists should possess?

If you want to be a qualified or even excellent journalist, you must strive to improve these four qualities. The following are the basic literacy articles I collected for you.

Journalists should have four elements and four qualities: legal quality, ability to obtain information, professional quality and humanistic quality.

First, journalists should have certain legal qualities.

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, in recent years, with the prosperity of the newspaper market, the guiding ideology of individual newspapers and periodicals has deviated in the market competition, and there are many problems in orientation, 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. ? (Guo Letian, 2002: Where will the media in China go? At the same time, the recent frequent 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. At present, the most effective way to solve this problem is to improve the legal quality of journalists, not only to establish the concept of 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 of the Constitution and all laws and regulations, and to bear corresponding legal responsibilities if violating laws and regulations. The experience of Beijing Youth Daily in this respect is worth learning. They have always stressed the need to interview and run the edition according to law, and asked editors and reporters to be vigilant anytime and anywhere, especially in the fields of intellectual property rights and civil rights. 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.

Second, journalists should have a strong 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. Take information science as an example. It is a technology and means to study the law of information generation, transmission and utilization, and use modern information to improve the efficiency of information generation, processing, storage, circulation and utilization. With the evolution of human society to the information society, the social importance of information science is increasing day by day, and its functions and research results are considered as one of the powerful pillars of the information society. The author believes that the process of obtaining news clues, interviewing and writing news is similar to that of information science. Information science is a comprehensive subject that studies information, and its foundation is information theory. According to the latest view of the press, journalists have been defined as "yes". Professional information disseminator? This gives journalists new connotation and extension. For a long time, journalists, especially some major newspapers and party newspapers, have obtained a large part of news clues. Send a job? That is, at the invitation of some government departments and enterprises, attend the press conference and then make corresponding reports. This form of work lacks initiative and creativity, and it will 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 now news reports pay more and more attention to planning and news dissemination? Agenda setting? More and more attention has been paid to the function, and 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.

Three, journalists should have a considerable level of specialization.

So-called? Professionalization of journalists? It means that every reporter should strive to be an expert in his field of reporting. 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 who have recently entered 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.

Fourthly, the humanistic quality of journalists also needs to be improved.

Ted, a professor of communication at Stanford University? Gretchen pointed out that journalism education should return to humanity education. While paying attention to the training of news interview skills, it is also very important to cultivate journalists' humanistic quality, open their conscience and enhance their sense of social responsibility. Chen Xiaochuan, deputy editor of China Youth Daily, wrote in What is the biggest challenge of journalism education in China? In the article,? Before becoming a journalist, journalists should have a humanistic pursuit and ideal. In the era of globalization, an excellent journalist should have this quality. He can understand the connotation of different cultures, has the ability of cultural exchange and understanding, including religion, and has the ability to tolerate various cultures. This will bring our report closer to the objective facts. ? Has anyone ever mentioned the quality of media people? Honeycomb theory? It is a fire-like passion, an ocean-like mind, a steel backbone, a motherly love, a hound-like keenness and an iceberg-like 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 retrain journalists and do business? Charging? In the process of learning from the successful experience of foreign universities, it is necessary to optimize the curriculum and teaching mode of journalism, reduce the courses that teach writing and editing skills, and increase the contents of social sciences and humanities such as economics, politics, law, history and linguistics, with the goal of making journalists have more available abilities and develop into a broader space.