What is journalism

Journalism is the study of journalism and journalism law of science. Journalism is the objective existence of human society as the object of their own research, the study focuses on the relationship between journalism and human society, to explore the emergence of journalism, the development of special laws and the basic requirements of journalism as a science. It studies the theory of journalism, the history of journalism and the business of journalism. The central theme of journalism is: the objective social conditions of human journalistic activities on the role of the decision, the dominant role of journalistic activities and journalistic activities on the reaction of society.

Status of the discipline

The origin of journalism can be traced back to the beginning of human social activities, human beings in the social life and production labor generated the need to pass information to each other, through the exchange of information to understand the changes that occur in social life. When this exchange of information became more and more socialized, journalism was born. The development of human society is more and more dependent on the exchange of information, journalism has a greater and greater impact on human society. News dissemination activities from the primitive oral communication to the text of the hand-copying and printing communication, radio broadcasting and television broadcasting, has become the 21st century human survival and development of indispensable conditions of social life.

As in the history of printing, radio broadcasting and television broadcasting and other technological advances to the news dissemination industry to bring about impact and change, the rise of the Internet has also seriously impacted the traditional news industry and the ecology of the enterprise, and even jeopardized the survival of some globally renowned news organizations, forcing the entire industry began to enter a new round of transformation. In the production and presentation of news content, multimedia technology has begun to play an important role, in the dissemination of news content, broadband network technology has also occupied an important position. These technological advances have posed many new challenges to the theoretical research and practical activities of journalism, and there have been many new results in playing a positive role in progress. Accordingly, some experts put forward the concept of network journalism, and established a certain theoretical system.