How to highlight valuable news facts in news writing

First, the news angle is the foothold and window to discover, perspective, dig and express news facts.

The purpose of choosing news angle is to fully and prominently explore and display the news value of facts, and better play the role of attracting, infecting and educating people in news reports.

From the practice of news writing, news angles are generally divided into mining angle and performance angle. The former focuses on interviews, while the latter focuses on writing highlights. The two are interrelated and complement each other, making the angle unique and vivid. This requires journalists and full-time and part-time journalists to have a strong level of political theory and be good at grasping the correct direction.

To be good at grasping the right direction, we must be good at finding the source of news. What is the origin of news? As the name implies, so does the truth. From the beginning, in a popular saying, it is the introduction or reason of writing. News is an objective report of recent facts. From the beginning, news is the basic basis of whether the material in your hand is worth writing, whether the events or characters you write are well-founded and whether the manuscript has news value.

News is the most sensitive, prominent and fresh part of news facts from the beginning. It is not only the basic factor of news, but also an important factor that determines the value of news. News has a duality from the beginning: strong timeliness leads to the importance of news topics.

News headlines have two functions: the first function: to emphasize the news value of the events or people written. That is, tell readers and listeners why the events or characters in the manuscript are now news, the source of the news you reported and the way to get it.

The second function: refresh the old news and save the events and people who want to report but have passed the time limit. In fact, none of us are prophets. Where there is news, professional media with modern communication technology and a huge editorial team can't capture all the news, let alone amateurs like us, let alone predict the news. The fact is, a lot of news was old news when we found it; Sometimes, news events appear gradually, and there may be a process during this period. When we find them, they may inevitably become "old news". So, how can we turn these old news into news? All this requires us to find a news source that readers want to know. From the beginning, news is a bridge to turn "old news" into news.

Looking for the source of news should be based on the change of news. First, find the nearest place in time. When looking for "headlines", it seems that everyone can still grasp this point and write the latest time at the beginning. It is true that news needs new time, but timeliness is not the only requirement of news, nor does it mean that there are news headlines, and special emphasis should be placed on new content. Whether it is news at first depends on the content, which should be the latest point in the content.

Second, dig up the latest points in content.

News is always associated with some changes in things, so we should have a strong ability to capture news. Once a news event happens, we should seize it and broadcast it quickly as soon as possible. In order to find new news sources, we should not only pay attention to typical news facts, but also pay attention to those informative and interesting news facts. Grasping such news facts to report can arouse people's interest, give people knowledge and enlighten people. If the news has gone far away for a long time, we should try our best to capture the new situation in the gradual process connected with it, and adopt the method of "new" with "old" and "near and far" to turn the old news into news. If we can find "news source" from outdated events and new content, we can also write good reports. This requires us to have a unique vision and discover the changes of known news facts.

In our usual interviews, we often encounter "late" news. In other words, when it was found to be good news, the fact had already happened for some time. What should I do if I encounter this situation? We can learn from the practices of many old journalists and be good at digging "news source" from the changes of facts, which can not only save "dead" news, but also write good news. To find news sources from the new changes in the discovered facts, we should handle the relationship between the new changes and the old news facts, that is, the old news is really worth reporting again; New changes are based on old news facts, and there is a close and inevitable connection between them. The "new" of new changes should be the content that the news media urgently needs to report at present.

In fact, in our usual interviews, as long as you pay attention everywhere and be a conscientious person, it is not difficult to find the news hidden around you. Then, it is not difficult to find the reason for this news release by asking more questions, remembering more and observing more in the interview.

Problems that should be paid attention to when looking for news headlines. News written after field observation should have new content from the beginning. Don't take things unrelated to the facts to be reported as news headlines. The so-called "learned" headline means that the author takes his own trip to a department or unit to understand the situation as the news headline. I learned that it has nothing to do with the time when the news happened, so it can't be counted as the five elements of the news. If this method is worth popularizing, then journalists and correspondents need not be nervous anymore. They can go to any unit to interview at any time and even write "fresh" news. However, this method is not impossible. This is feasible when the time of reporting something coincides with the time when the reporter or correspondent knows about it. Use "As of" carefully. Some correspondents can't find a good news headline when writing, but take the time of writing as the standard and adopt the procedure of "from a certain month to a certain day" as the news headline. This is the beginning of the "as" style. Pay attention to the interception time. Don't be careless Any introduction with the words "recently, not long ago, a few days ago" is called "careless eye" Using such careless words can only weaken the timeliness of news. In a sense, this is a way to fool readers. Therefore, we must resolutely abandon the origin of "careless eyes". Practice has proved that as long as you look patiently in the interview, there is still a beginning.

Second, let the news "melt" into human nature.

The choice angle of excellent news works is changeable. Sometimes, in order to make those "hard news" that are purely policy-oriented and economical welcome to readers and listeners, we have to operate skillfully in all aspects, give full play to the role of the situation, choose various "breakthrough points", and cross economic reports and compulsory reports with folk customs, social fashion, geographical environment, cultural history, modern science and technology, so that news reports have a unique perspective and are easy to understand. The current "exclusive news" does not mean that you have readers and listeners by grabbing the "first landing point" and "the first time", but requires the author and the media to dig deeper news facts than others with exclusive concepts, exclusive perspectives and exclusive methods.

Third, expand the "new perspective" and strengthen the "three consciousnesses"

The unique skill of news writing is "grabbing news", and good news can never be separated from a good angle, which depends on "three consciousnesses". What about "three consciousnesses"?

1. News value should have "reader consciousness". This seems to be a logical problem. However, it is not easy to carry out this kind of "reader consciousness" in interview, writing, running a newspaper and running a platform, which requires constant thinking.

2. News value should be innovative. A good work can't be separated from a good angle. No matter how good the angle is, if the concept is out of date, it will lose its due glory.

When it comes to innovation, we must first break through the "self", break through the limitations of personal knowledge and social practice, and constantly deny the "self". In this way, in a brand-new state, we can choose the latest writing angle from the latest perspective. This requires us to go deep into life and practice, stimulate new ideas and realize new perspectives through the accumulation of knowledge and experience. We should constantly break through the old mindset, use the mind of politicians, the rigor of scientists and the keenness of journalists, break through the limitations of thinking, overcome the rigid reporting thinking of singing "Four Seasons Songs" in the past, and change mandatory reporting into persuasive reporting; Change a simple business report into a double report of operators and the public, close to the masses, close to life, close to the times, and achieve the purpose of innovation, liveliness and goodness.

3. To realize the news value, we must have "quality consciousness". After the angle is determined, to realize its news value, "subtlety" can never be ignored. Form and content are a pair of contradictions, which are both opposite and unified. It is not enough for an article or a program to have a good angle, but also to have good content, which should be polished with a "flower pen" so that readers can not only get information from a good news work, but also get a beautiful enjoyment.

In our corporate news propaganda and reporting work, why are the manuscripts written by many grass-roots journalists simple, dry and lifeless, or do not understand the background of news events, and the vertical and horizontal contrast materials are insufficient, so that many valuable news cannot be fully displayed and adopted by newspaper media? The reason: Most of them are because grass-roots journalists are shy and difficult to interview. How can journalists overcome these three situations and write good news reports? Based on more than 30 years of news propaganda experience, the following experiences are summarized:

First, be ambitious, be aggressive, be diligent in interviews, and dare to write and publish.

As an ordinary grass-roots correspondent (including myself at the beginning), I have such a mentality: I am just an ordinary employee of an enterprise, and I am not a full-time writer. Writing a manuscript is the requirement of the leader. In order to achieve the target, or just as a hobby, others will laugh at you In fact, this kind of worry is not unreasonable. When I first started writing amateur news, I was just a digger in a mine. Some people say: I carry a mountain rat on my back all day and pretend to be a mountain hunter. Some people also say: I feel uneasy at work, want to climb higher, and want to change jobs. No matter what others say, correspondents should always hold the belief that news writing is better or other writing is better. Since the leader asked you to write or you are a hobby, it is a noble hobby after all. Even writing news articles to show one's talents and realize one's life value are strongly advocated by modern society. At the same time, an enterprise with advanced ideas must attach importance to news propaganda. Our Chongqing Energy Investment Group has incorporated news propaganda into the assessment of party and government work in enterprises since the former Chongqing Coal Management Bureau, and has continuously carried out news writing competitions, appraisals, commendations and awards for more than 20 years. Especially since the new leadership of the mining company took office in 2005, Chairman Liu, Party Secretary, Deputy Secretary Zong Xuechao and Chief Engineer Yu Nengjun have all attached great importance to it, adjusted and improved the manuscript reward system, personally took the lead in writing and revising manuscripts, and put forward the principles of news propaganda, which are mainly internal, supplemented by external, combined with internal and external, shaping the corporate image externally and rallying the hearts of employees. Enterprise news propaganda work is regarded as: a part of enterprise ideological and political work; An important part of enterprise spiritual civilization construction; Cultivation and display of advanced corporate culture. With this understanding and orientation, our correspondent should establish the righteousness of "I dare not forget my country, I will contribute to the enterprise", shoulder the responsibility of full-time and part-time correspondent, and boldly interview, write and send. As Dante said: Go your own way and let others talk. Put aside all gossip, take the initiative to interview and write your own news articles boldly.

At the same time, from the technical level, interview is the basic means to obtain news. It can be said that there is no real news report without an interview. Because only through interviews can you get a lot of news material; Only through interviews can you know the cause, development and result of news events. Therefore, the correspondent must attach great importance to the interview in order to make himself write a true, vivid and touching good news report.

Second, who dares to interview the law of novelty and difference?

When our grass-roots reporters are just engaged in news interview writing, when faced with major news events, they often have the idea that there are newspaper reporters outside and full-time press officers inside. They all finished writing the news. What should I do in the interview? In fact, the news is endless. In particular, the reporting of major events requires multi-angle, multi-faceted and continuous follow-up reporting. Perhaps journalists and full-time corporate press officers have written the main reports of the incident. However, it is often flourishing, and the impact of the incident on the local people and the masses. These are the most worthy of journalists writing at the grassroots level and in it.

Last May12 Wenchuan Earthquake, heavyweight journalists from TV, newspapers and magazines from all over the country went deep into the disaster area and reported the disaster situation and advanced deeds of rescue and relief in TV, radio and newspapers at all levels. In front of such a strong lineup, can our correspondent still sing? If we think it's all written and reported, we may not be able to use it and give up. But we didn't give up, because our rescuers went to the disaster area for earthquake relief. They were most familiar with the local danger, the process, progress and practice of rescue and relief, and the evaluation of local victims. To this end, we can interview and understand the situation in time through mobile phone calls, SMS transmission, etc., and write to Tianfu Sanhui No.1 Mine to go to the disaster area for rescue and disaster relief; Earthquake relief has the grace of abundance; Danger is command, time is life; The leaders of Chongqing Coal Supervision Bureau went to the disaster area to express their condolences to the members of Tianfu Rescue Team; Fighting was adopted by workers' daily, China coal newspaper, manager's daily, coal mine daily, contemporary miners, Chongqing labor movement, Chongqing energy, Chongqing coal and other newspapers in the first line of emergency rescue and disaster relief, and was adopted by many websites.

The above examples show that correspondents, journalists and full-time news cadres often stand on the same starting line. The Eight Immortals show their magical powers when they cross the sea, depending on whether your interview is in-depth, whether your report is wonderful, and whether the newspaper delivery meets the requirements.

This requires us to pay attention to the directionality, foresight and predictability of news when collecting and writing news; Pay attention to finding characteristics, grasping problems, understanding perspectives, and seeing the essence through phenomena; Identify the situation and find the characteristics, and find the characteristics through comparison and concrete analysis; The key to grasping problems is: grasping the problems that need to be solved urgently in practical work; Grasping issues of public concern; Grasp the tendentious problems; Grasp the new problems in the development of things; When you write, I will help you with a few tips: pay attention to several combinations: upper and lower combination: combine the spirit of superiors with the actual situation; Point-surface combination: the combination of individual and general, special and universal, local and whole; Vertical and horizontal integration: vertical understanding: a complete understanding of the history and development of things; Horizontal understanding: the understanding of the organic connection between one thing and other things; Positive and negative combination: the connection between two opposing individual facts.

The competition of news, in addition to basic concepts, common sense, elements, values and so on, is ultimately the competition of personality and characteristic style. Seeking novelty and novelty is the unchangeable law of news, and speaking is the unchangeable principle of news. Vividness and liveliness are the unchangeable coat of news, and shock and shock are the unchangeable bones of news. Under this framework, everyone can fully interpret the characteristics and show their personality, without looking at others and seeking uniformity.

Looking back on March 3 1 65438, I wrote that I put the leading group under the supervision of the masses-Sichuan Coal Company adhered to the four invariants, combined the director responsibility system with the democratic management of employees, and promoted the development of production; On July 1 day, Tianfu Mining Bureau paid close attention to the party's self-construction-strengthening the party organization's functions of strengthening the body and immune hematopoiesis; February 1990, 13, the channel of connecting with the masses and promoting the production force in Sanhui No.1 Mine of Tianfu Mining Bureau, and the system of cadres going underground were all adopted by the headlines of Chongqing Daily. Imagine: if I was concerned about this and that, saw the good news, realized the news value of the event but didn't have the courage to interview it, then why did I see such a dazzling manuscript? Many times, journalists just need confidence and courage to write and interview. Even if I can't publish it in the newspaper, I have exercised myself and improved myself through this process. Why not? !

Be resourceful, be good at interviewing and be diligent, and you will gain something.

Our reporter not only overcame the psychology of being ashamed and afraid to interview, but also overcame the fear of difficulties in the interview, and learned and mastered some basic interview skills and communication methods, thus completing his own interview task.

For journalists, the news objects they often face are business leaders and employees. When interviewing leaders, the shyness and timidity of many grassroots journalists are more prominent. The correspondent's report often must have the intention, opinion and understanding of the leader. The solution to this problem is: when leaders make reports and give instructions at meetings, correspondents should listen more carefully and record more carefully than ordinary employees, and perhaps one sentence is a wonderful introduction in your report; One of his expositions is to make clear your knowledge, understanding and views on something, so that you can greatly save the time of interviewing leaders directly. If the information obtained in this way is not complete enough, you can express what you want to know to the leader in a tone of consultation and discussion after coming down, and the leader will also convey his thoughts and opinions to you in a relaxed and comfortable environment. This can avoid stubbornness and embarrassment in direct interviews. If you can't reach your intention, you must interview the leader directly, and you have little experience in interviewing the leader. You didn't make full preparations in advance, so you wrote down the questions you wanted to ask in a notebook and asked the leader directly. A competent business leader is willing to be interviewed by the correspondent of his unit and even take the initiative to help the correspondent complete the interview task. Because he just needs you to publicize his ideas, practices and opinions to workers, mining areas and society. So reporters don't have to worry about being rejected. If rejected, it can only show that the leader is incompetent.

For interviewing ordinary employees, the situation is relatively complicated: there are those who love to talk and those who don't; Some people talk endlessly and want to tell you everything they know, whether it has anything to do with it or not; Some people talk for a long time and ask everything, but he just can't jump out a word. No matter what happens, our reporters should treat the interviewees in an equal and peaceful manner. For ordinary employees and not very special events, I think the correspondent should not take out your interview book. In seemingly ordinary bragging chat, you can often get a lot of valuable news clues and factual materials. For people who love to talk, they should be good at being listeners, guides and screeners. In most cases, don't interrupt their conversation. First, it is impolite. Second, the interviewee will be disappointed, and the next conversation will not be very comfortable and pleasant. For a person who doesn't like to talk, sometimes you can look around and try to find the topics he is interested in, such as his family, his children and his favorite hobbies. These topics can often arouse people's Tan Xing, and then introduce the topics you want.

Actually, interview is a communication skill. Only its form is more professional and its purpose is clearer. How to grasp it well depends on the correspondent's experience and practice. Only by learning and using interview, the basis and basic skill of news writing, can we have better development and improvement in news writing in the future.

Speaking of which, some correspondents may say that this is all theoretical. How do we grasp and write? Here, I don't imitate what enterprises or newspapers need, that is, people often tell you four seasons songs, in order to fight well in advance and improve the contribution rate:

News reports are focused. Let me speak for you. Production got off to a good start in January, and all the leaders went to send warm. Workers' congresses are often held this month, and the spirit of the meetings should be publicized. The Spring Festival in February is just around the corner, so it is difficult to help the poor. The spring is chilly and the wind is like a knife. If others don't write, I will rush ahead. In March, young people learned from Lei Feng, and the streets were full of flaming red hats. Planting trees and planting beautiful homeland, you might as well vote. April is the golden season, and the busiest thing for enterprises is production. Go deep into the grassroots to the front line and pick up the camera. Everyone sings red songs in May, and model workers are the key. Typical people and events are the most touching moments. Don't forget the exact time, not to mention one day. Half a year in June is about to pass, and it is common for newspapers to be double-half. In July, it was hot and sweaty, and melon, fruit and sugar tea were sent to the front line. Party member is the most sought-after sweet moon. The rainy season is coming, and the flood control is strict. August is the most prone to manuscript shortage, with at least half of the submissions. Just report anything, the meeting document is Jinshan. In September, prepare the first draft of family planning and write two articles on basic national policies. Don't forget other important things, national defense education should be publicized. /kloc-There are many National Day activities in October, so remember the anti-freezing and anti-blocking measures. 1 1 month was busy sprinting, and finally good news came in 1 month. If you have any figures, report them. After this year's application, we will make plans for next year. You just need to report your thoughts for the coming year, and it's no exaggeration to talk about it. Enterprise news is regular, productive and political. With the continuous improvement of production technology, emergency rescue is never out of date. Political work, including Party-masses work, is easily overlooked as a discipline inspection work. Send warm in trade union sports activities and labor competitions. Propaganda officers have tasks, and writing articles should broaden the road. News dissemination plus speeches, essays and photos.