The process of news selection

News selection is actually the art of choosing news facts. Interviewing, writing and editing are the three main aspects of news gathering, and they are all closely related to news selection, which can be regarded as the three steps of discovering, screening and selecting news facts. News interviewing is the process of discovering news facts; news writing is the process of removing the rough and selecting the best, screening news facts; news editing is the process of comprehensively scrutinizing and integrating news facts.

If the news selection in the process of interviewing and writing generally belongs to the needy choice, then the process of editing is a combination of the needy choice and two kinds of forced choice. On top of that, the news editor has to scrutinize all the manuscripts in a comprehensive way and decide how to present them. This is a much more complex integration process.