Journalists' Puzzlement and Breakthrough —— Writing in the New Media Era

In the past two years, with the strong rise of WeChat and various apps, newspapers in traditional industries are facing transformation. It happened right beside me. I have been a correspondent in the office for two years. Because the company has a designated newspaper office, most of our news is published on it. Until the end of last year, the newspaper announced the cancellation, the transformation of new media, and the launch of app.

I think the difference between newspapers and new media lies in the following points:

1. Morphological changes. Traditional newspapers can only be presented in the form of words, and pictures are used to enrich the content. In the new media era, video and audio can be added to make the content easier to display.

2. timeliness. Traditional newspapers need a series of links, such as submission, review, typesetting and publication, and the information in the newspaper can't reflect the situation of the day well. New media has just changed this model, from submission to release, it can be online in about an hour.

3. Language is more distinctive. The language of traditional newspapers tends to be official, or a strong sense of template, and at the same time it needs a strong writing skills, and the things written are neat and beautiful. However, the language of new media tends to be networked, and many new words appear, which makes the language more popular and easy to understand, and requires less writers' writing ability.

In view of our traditional way of writing as a correspondent, we can cope with the change in form from several aspects:

1. Adapt to the writing style in the new media era as soon as possible.

2. Learn the language style in the new media era. Pay more attention to online forums and find some jargon.

3. Learn related software. With the development of the Internet age, people prefer to display content in the form of pictures and videos. To learn some basic picture making and processing methods, as well as video editing methods.

As a small white correspondent, we should think about the development of news writing with Internet thinking, maintain the advantages of traditional culture, integrate new media and open up new patterns.