What books should I read if I want to be a reporter?

1. William Brownell, How The Wall Street Journal Tells Stories.

How The Wall Street Journal tells stories explains why The Wall Street Journal has produced so many amazing reports. If you are a reporter-this book was formerly known as "Inside Lecture of The Wall Street Journal", which is specially trained for journalists who provide feature articles for the front page of The Wall Street Journal. It tells reporters one thing, that is, how to attract readers' attention with high-quality reports and keep this attention! If you are not a reporter, you will often use writing-this book will let you know what elements make what you dictate interesting and attractive in nature! All great stories come from great ideas, and almost all great story ideas show human nature.

2. Mencher's news reporting and writing

The Chinese version of News Reporting and Writing can provide some basic contents and lessons about journalism for students studying journalism in China, which is the starting point for a journalist to grow up. The book News Reporting and Cooperation shows students how to analyze events and how to integrate these analyses in news reports. A responsible journalist should know how to think about events in a specific social background to find out the importance of their causes and consequences. This means that journalists should not only constantly improve their reporting skills, but also expand their understanding of people, their culture and society.

Melvin Mencher is a tenured professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He studied at the University of New Mexico and the University of Colorado in his early years. From 1947, he worked for several newspapers in united press international, New Mexico and California, and served as the special correspondent of Christian Science Monitor in China and the United States. He was a Niemann scholar at Harvard University.

3. Backstage (the first episode), Southern Weekend, Nanfang Daily Press.

This is the truth of "seeking truth", and this is the expression of "deadpan".

This book shows a secret that affects the news production of newspapers all over the country, and shows the truth of the background operation of media news that is constantly pursued.

Some people say that the value of the articles in the book may even exceed the public report of Southern Weekend. This is of course a fallacy. However, it does record news and journalists, reality and introspection from a very unique angle.

The first episode of backstage is divided into three parts: action, thinking and demonstration. "Action" shows the bitterness and joy of reporters in the process of reporting: how to find news clues in garbage; How to reduce the interview cost by staying overnight, ensure objective reporting, and avoid having to "sell yourself" in the report because of sponsorship?

"; How to establish a good relationship with the interviewee to get continuous attention; How to make the report more "emotional" through multi-party interviews. Thinking embodies the professional thinking and experience of editors and reporters: from how to understand and grasp the standards of "objective reporting" and "moralization", how to realize the compatibility between large-scale observation and detailed expression, to how to deal with officials, how to standardize the use of personal names and titles, how to correctly express anonymous sources ... and "debate" is based on the understanding that "peacetime is an angel" in newspapers.

The heated debate on the article "Weekend is the Devil" vividly presents the tradition of internal newspaper review and the background of news operation of Southern Weekend.

4. Li Xiguang's distorted media

Infiltrated the author's brand-new ideas and profound thoughts on the theory and operation of news communication under the background of globalization, and examined and expounded some hot and difficult issues that media communicators and audiences are concerned about with from a scholar's perspective. For example, in the era of diversified interests, how to express journalists' views? What will be the trend of news reform in China in the future? The author is worried about the media's practice of replacing public interests with commercial interests. At the same time, the author strongly questioned China's journalism education, which is divorced from the real journalism practice and lags behind the development of the times, and thinks that the next generation of journalists must be trained in the real world.

In this revision, the author added new contents that people pay attention to. For example, it puts forward thought-provoking opinions on how to improve the domestic news propaganda mode; Strong proof of American global media hegemony.

5. Innovative thinking in Hu Zhiping's news writing.

6. All-round reporter must have basic skills of news gathering, writing and editing.

7. Modern Chinese Dictionary

8. Etymology

9. When it comes to diplomacy, it is necessary to have the latest edition of Overview of Countries and Public Opinion.

10. "Popular Economics Series" and "Modern Social Psychology" [Japan] Modern Sociology edited by Beichuan Longji

Interview hosting skills

theories of journalism

Editology

Interview and writing

History of China News Development

History of foreign news development