After 68 years, this reference room has become the "super brain" of Henan Publishing House.

In the "central kitchen", it is very convenient to obtain and process information.

Henan Business Daily reporter Wang Chunsheng/photo

Liu Shiang, All Media Reporter of Henan Newspaper Industry

On June 6th, the new version of "Central Kitchen" was officially launched, and the "* * * Action Plan" was signed with the provincial 18 municipal party newspapers, and the new version of the client was connected to "Central Kitchen" ... A series of epoch-making major initiatives appeared on the stage, marking the integration and development of Henan Daily Newspaper Group to a new level, highlighting the journey of the newspaper group in media integration.

A story

A young reporter 24 years ago

With it, an important report is completed.

The East Hall on the first floor of Henan Daily Newspaper Building, formerly known as the Reference Room, is a "treasure house" for storing newspaper materials for decades, which witnessed the past glory of this newspaper. Now, it has been upgraded from the storage room of paper information to the general hub of digital information and become the command hall of the new version of "Central Kitchen". The inheritance of space and the butterfly of time meet here. This "headquarters" with great sense of weight and futuristic style is a powerful footnote for the deep integration of reform and innovation of Henan Daily Newspaper Group.

During the period of 1993, Lei Meng, editor-in-chief of Dahe Network Media Group, was still a young journalist and was entrusted with the important task of covering NPC and CPPCC in Beijing.

"As the only reporter sent to Beijing by Henan Daily, the publishing task is very heavy." Recalling that year, Lei Meng said that at that time, there was no computer or mobile phone, and the manuscript had to be sent by fax. "So it is difficult to get information support."

1993 The National People's Congress happened to be at a key historical node-after Deng Xiaoping inspected the south, after the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held, a new round of reform was surging in China.

"At such an important historical node, how can I do my report well?" Lei Meng clearly remembers that in the reference room of Henan Daily, he collected the information about the reform and opening up and the conversation in southern Deng Xiaoping. After such a process, Lei Meng admitted that he "increased his sense of history and broadened his horizons".

I arrived in Beijing, and after attending the discussion of the Henan delegation, Raymond sent back the first draft. "I clearly remember that the title of the summary is" Opportunity is knocking on the door of Henan ". "In this report, he incorporated many explanations and evaluations of reform and opening up that he saw in historical newspapers, and even referred to various explanations of opportunities faced by China in foreign newspapers, and the manuscript naturally received a good response.

"A young reporter sent an influential and raved manuscript, and even met friends and colleagues after coming back for a long time. They also said that the report was well written and eye-opening, and I would be proud of the help provided by the reference room. " He said with emotion.

A place

In the eyes of newspaper reporters and editors, this is a sacred place.

There is no shortage of journalists and capable editors in any newspaper.

"But it is a powerful information support system that every newspaper has in the past, which can maximize the potential of journalists and editors, broaden their horizons and deepen their thinking." Lei Meng said that in the era of traditional media, it is a reference room that has accumulated a lot of materials, history and external information.

In the reference room of Henan Daily, there are hundreds of thousands of books, which preserve the newspapers that have not fallen behind for a day since the publication of Henan Daily, and even collect overseas newspapers and various academic materials that ordinary people can't see.

"'How far you want to see the future often depends on how deep you dig into history', so in the era of traditional media, the reference room is very important. It is an intellectual library and even a foundation to support our planning. " In Lei Meng's view, if a newspaper has such a reference room, then the reporters and editors of this newspaper are a group of people who are very happy and ahead of others in business.

Later, Lei Meng visited many reference rooms. "Compared with neighboring provinces, the reference room of Henan Daily has the best storage conditions and the most convenient access."

With the development of Internet technology in recent years, the convenience of data acquisition has been greatly improved. "At that time, only I could see it. You can get it in minutes now. " When it comes to the review, Lei Meng said with emotion.

In order to make the reference room run on the Internet, Henan Daily has completed a huge project-digitizing all newspapers and photo negatives from the first issue to the present. This spring, the reference room began to be rebuilt, and the original place became the media center of Henan Daily Newspaper Group, commonly known as the "central kitchen".

A metamorphosis

68-year-old reference room

Today, it is reborn through technology.

Back to 2065438+April 24th, 2006, Liu Qibao, Minister of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, sent a message during the investigation of Henan Daily Newspaper Group, stressing the need to create a "central kitchen" for media integration, so as to truly realize news information collection, multi-generation and multi-dissemination at one time and integration through addition.

In the "central kitchen", a large screen consisting of six touch screens on the left side of the door replaced the 800-square-meter reference room. Through this screen, you can retrieve the newspaper layout and pictures of Henan Daily in 1968 at will.

The historical reference room, which bears the vicissitudes of Henan Daily for 68 years, has been reborn and reborn by digital means through media integration. "This fully proves that the digitalization of Henan Daily Newspaper Group is very timely, and it makes full use of resources to revitalize the stock and make incremental progress in media integration."

"Therefore, the historic space where the' Central Kitchen' is located and the information support that editors and journalists can enjoy through mobile phones through digitalization fully demonstrate that media integration has greatly promoted our modern editors and modern media matrix, and we can be regarded as the pride of media integration." Lei Meng said.

This is destined to be a historic moment, which is destined to be a landmark coordinate.

From "lead and fire", "light and electricity" to "number and network", today, in the tide of media integration and development, on this journey with no retreat and no end, Henan Daily Newspaper Group, which has a glorious history of 68 years, shoulders the glory and dreams of journalists from generation to generation, conforms to the trend and takes the initiative to ride the wind and waves with the heroic spirit of "despite thousands of people going"

interconnection

What are the outstanding skills of "central kitchen"

Skills 1: The positioning command system can realize intelligent matching.

In the "central kitchen", the best match between journalists and news can be achieved through a map stacked with journalists' positions and news events.

"Maybe the reporter is in the northwest corner of Zhengzhou, but the news is in the southeast corner. When he arrives, the news will be over. " Li, the person in charge of the development of the "Central Kitchen" system platform and director of the Dahe Net Technology Development Center, said that through this system, you can see at a glance where the news is, where the public is concerned, where the reporter is, and what equipment the reporter carries, so as to achieve the best match between the reporter and the clue.

Tip 2: Let reporters have ten or eight times more clues than in the past.

"We grab millions of news data from various websites every day, and after processing big data through cloud computing, we push the content that journalists pay attention to to to everyone." Li introduced that, in this way, the way reporters get clues has changed from the original active search for clues to the current "passive" reception.

He revealed that in this way, the number and timeliness of informants' clues are greatly improved compared with before, and the work efficiency will be greatly improved. And how many more clues will the reporter get than before? A person in charge once mentioned that it may be ten times or eight times more than in the past.

Tip 3: Let reporters "have one more pair of eyes and one more brain"

The "central kitchen" system was developed by engineers of Henan Daily Newspaper Group. "If the system is used by a third party, the data will be lost and it cannot be iteratively upgraded at any time according to the demand." Lei Meng said.

The reporter opened the writing page and actively connected to the reference room. Through the systematic keyword association function and the use of those historical materials, newspaper people have a pair of eyes, a brain and an advantageous resource to explore the depths of history. After digitization, it has become a support that editors and journalists can rely on.

"Even compared with the electronic reference room, the' central kitchen' system of Henan Daily Newspaper Group is very advanced, targeted, intelligent and knowledgeable." He said.