The structure and meaning of the news

Headings generally include the citation heading, the main heading, and the subheading; The lead is the first paragraph or sentence at the beginning of the news, which briefly reveals the core content of the news; The main body is the torso of the news, which expresses the theme with sufficient facts, and is a further expansion and interpretation of the content of the introduction. Context refers to the social and natural environment in which the news takes place. Background and epilogue can sometimes be implicit in the subject. When reading the news, we should pay attention to its six elements (that is, the six elements of narrative): people, time, place, and the cause, process, and result of the event.

Meaning: News refers to a term for information disseminated through newspapers, radio, radio, television stations, the Internet and other channels. The concept of journalism is broad and narrow.

In its broad sense, in addition to the comments and special articles published in newspapers and periodicals, radio, the Internet, and television, commonly used texts belong to the list of news, including news, newsletters, features, sketches (some include sketches in the list of features), etc., while news in the narrow sense refers to news, which is a summary narrative and relatively concise and concise words to quickly and timely report new and valuable facts at home and abroad.

In 1942, *** proposed: "The definition of news is the reporting of recent facts. Fan Changjiang also gave a definition of news: "News is an important fact that the masses want to know but do not know."

News features. Since the establishment of journalism, there have been endless definitions of news, and there are countless classifications of news, although there are many types of news, they all have common characteristics: authenticity, timeliness, importance, proximity, extensiveness, openness, and change.

Authenticity: The dissemination of news must conform to objective facts, the people, time, place, and events in the news must stand up to checking, truth is the life of the news, if the news is distorted, then such news is worthless, can not be called news.

Timeliness: Every minute is racing against time when releasing news, and if a piece of news is not released in time, it will become a future and no one cares.

Importance: With the development of information, there are too many things that happen around us every day, and media resources are limited, so everything cannot be regarded as news dissemination, so it is necessary to disseminate important information.

Proximity: If news dissemination is close to people's livelihood, it is more likely to be accepted by the audience.

Openness: The dissemination of news is open and oriented to[1] the general public, so it is open.

Extensiveness: There is no limited area for the dissemination of news, and the famous journalism scholar ***: News is the dissemination of new facts. So the field of journalism and communication is wide-ranging.

Variability: Journalism is the reporting of meaningful information that happens in life. And the facts in life are constantly changing, and the news should reflect the facts that change objectively

Structure of news

A combination of news styles. News generally consists of a headline, an introduction, a body, a background, and an ending. However, not every news article has these five parts, and some news stories have no lead and background. Several common news structures are:

Inverted pyramidal structure. Put the most important content at the top of the news, and then rank the others in order of importance. Its advantage is that it can quickly tell readers the freshest and most important facts straight to the point, so that readers can understand them at a glance and save time in reading newspapers.

Pyramidal structure. Also known as the "reversal inverted pyramid". Put the most important and exciting content in the back and narrate it in chronological order.

Rhombic structure. This is a "small at the ends and large in the middle" structure. Because the main content of the news is relatively complex, it cannot be accommodated in the introduction, nor can it be summarized, so it is suitable for segmented narration in the main body.

Spoke structure. Take a central event or thing as the key, and other facts radiate out like the spokes of a car. It is suitable to report on relatively scattered events.

Side-by-side structure. Tell the juxtaposition of many major facts. It is suitable for reporting news of equal or similar importance to various parts of the facts, and is more common in bulletin-style news.

Basically, that's all of the above, but recently there has been a rise in "hybrid" structures, which are not necessarily one of the five structures above, or they may be a combination of the advantages of each of the above structures to present hard news in a narrative way.

The problem itself is a bit problematic. If the landlord wants to ask about the structure of the message, the content of the answer is basically correct. But the concept is clearly wrong, this is the structure of the message. And the encyclopedia would even say that the structure of the message is the structure of the news? Obviously steal the concept!

As for the structure of the news, many years ago, when I took a professional class, it seemed that the teacher was talking about the time, background, and tendency of the news. These theories have not been used for many years, and they have long been forgotten.