Training of news writing skills

The basic skills of journalists are summarized by an old journalist in four aspects: Political cultivation, Knowledge Cultivation, investigation and research, and text expression. I believe that the text expression ability mentioned here is also the news writing technique. Technical skills and methods. The training of news writing techniques is also an important part of basic training for every professional journalist and amateur correspondent.

In the writing research field, some people have proposed three basic methods of writing techniques training, namely "narrative training", "descriptive training", and "discussion training ". Compared with other styles, news writing has its own special requirements and rules, but it is consistent with many common issues. Therefore, I believe that the basic content and methods of news writing techniques training can be used for reference from these three aspects, it can be divided into "News narrative training", "News descriptive training", and "News discussion training ". Generally speaking, improving news writing techniques from these three aspects can basically meet the needs of today's news style Writing. In the actual writing training process, the three training content can be carried out independently or in combination. That is to say, interspersed news narration in news narration, interspersed news discussion in news profiling, and interspersed news narration in news discussion. This training method is referred to as "synthesis training of news writing techniques" by a military term ". From the perspective of Application Science, synthesis training is very necessary. Because he does not have the skills to master all kinds of news writing techniques at the same time, he cannot be a competent journalist.

News writing techniques can be trained according to the practices of "Simulated" drills in military training. Prepare in advance and purposefully "decide" a number of topics and then implement them. The foreign press did this only when training journalists. For example, if an on-site interview is conducted for an emergency, a 400 or 500-word message should be written within one or two hours; write a large activity or a person in a certain place into a review or comment. This "simulation" training is applicable to both collective training of news talents and amateur correspondents and individual exercises. Even if you do not have any news clue, you can do it anytime, anywhere. Of course, it is a more important way to consciously exercise news writing techniques based on actual news collection and writing practices. "Simulated" training and practical training have their own strengths and cannot be replaced by each other. Both of them can promote each other at the same time.

we must carry forward the spirit of perseverance in training news techniques. In this regard, the spirit of hard writing and hard work by some famous writers deserves our learning. Lu Xun devoted himself to the literary business for 30 years and kept his diary every day until he died for the first ten hours without interruption. For decades, Lao She insisted on writing a pen every day, sketching a character, or reading a story, or a sense of miscellaneous, the form is not limited, write a few hundred words every day; the poet luyou "A day class A poem", according to future generations statistics, "60 years a thousand poems", was passed to the literary world; tang, a Hong Kong writer, writes 10 thousand words a day. His speed and perseverance are admirable. Qin Mu once said: "To learn, I am forced to write thousands of word diaries or reading notes every day. I believe that I can improve my skills ." He also believes that some people write articles slowly because they have not undergone such hard training. It can be seen that, like other literary and artistic creations, the technical training of news writing is a basic skill. We should not ignore this issue when training news talents and strengthening the business construction of news teams. (Zhang Yili)