Journalism and the media are some of the critical tools that play a critical role in disseminating information in society. In most cases, rather than focus on conducting research and studies, journalism concentrates on providing the audience with the current news. As a result of this, journalism plays a critical not only in informing but also in transforming their perceptions and as such, the perceptions of the entire society. During this semester, there are a number of issues I have learned about journalism in both a classroom environment and in conducting interviews and writing a news article. This essay reflects on what I have learned about the nature of news.
新闻和媒体是在社会传播信息方面发挥关键作用的一些关键工具。在大多数情况下，新闻业不是专注于进行研究，而是专注于向受众提供当前新闻。因此，新闻业不仅在提供信息方面发挥着关键作用，而且在转变他们的观念以及整个社会的观念方面也发挥着关键作用。在这学期里，我在课堂环境、采访和撰写新闻文章中学到了许多关于新闻的问题。这篇文章反映了我对新闻本质的了解。
To begin with, one of the things I have learned about journalism and the writing of news article regard the way these articles are written. Notably, whereas different forms of writings such as essays and research paper begin by laying a background before delving in the development of the main ideas, writing the news articles require the write to begin with the main issue at hand before focusing on the details. According to Po¨ ttker (2003), news articles uses a writing styles that is often referred to as an inverted pyramid, whereby the writer begin with the most “newsworthy” information, before covering the details and the general information on the issue being covered. Through learning on how to write to write news articles, I realised that journalists begins their articles in a way that quickly captures the attention of the audiences before highlighting the minors details that such audience may find unattractive. In addition to this, I think news articles highly utilise narrative writing as a way to tell the story at hand.
首先，我学到的关于新闻和新闻文章写作的知识之一就是这些文章的写作方式。值得注意的是，不同形式的写作，如散文和研究论文，在深入研究主要观点之前，首先要准备好背景，而撰写新闻文章则需要先从手头的主要问题开始，然后再关注细节。根据Po–ttker（2003）的说法，新闻文章采用了一种通常被称为倒金字塔的写作风格，即作者在报道被报道问题的细节和一般信息之前，从最“有新闻价值”的信息开始。通过学习如何写新闻文章，我意识到，记者在开始撰写文章时，会迅速吸引观众的注意力，然后再强调观众可能觉得不吸引人的细节。除此之外，我认为新闻文章高度利用叙事写作来讲述眼前的故事。
Another thing that I have learned about the nature of news is the fact that despite the fact that it mainly reports current news, and other events happening within the society, the credibility of search articles depends heavily on the ability of the journalist to find information from reliable sources. In this case, contrary to the perceptions that people might have that journalists just witness event and writes news from their experience in such events, this is not the case. On the contrary, I have realised the news articles that had quoted people who were considered as an authority in a particular fields help strengthen the credibility of the news articles and as such, enhanced the chances of attracting a larger audience. This is particularly the case considering the fact that since the advent of the internet, almost everyone in society can write a news article. Therefore, as O'sullivan and Heinonen (2008) observes, quoting authoritative voice on a particular matter is instrumental in helping differentiate low quality from high quality news articles. Importantly, I need to mention that when quoting such sources, as a journalist I need to maintain a high level of integrity when using information acquired from third parties, including authoritative voices on particular issues.
关于新闻的本质，我学到的另一件事是，尽管它主要报道当前新闻和社会上发生的其他事件，但搜索文章的可信度在很大程度上取决于记者从可靠来源找到信息的能力。在这种情况下，与人们可能认为记者只是目击事件并根据他们在此类事件中的经历撰写新闻的看法相反，事实并非如此。相反，我意识到，那些引用了某些领域权威人士的新闻文章有助于增强新闻文章的可信度，从而增加吸引更多受众的机会。考虑到自互联网出现以来，社会上几乎每个人都可以写一篇新闻文章，情况尤其如此。因此，正如O'sullivan和Heinonen（2008）所观察到的，在特定问题上引用权威声音有助于区分低质量和高质量的新闻文章。重要的是，我需要提到，在引用这些消息来源时，作为一名记者，我需要在使用从第三方获得的信息时保持高度的诚信，包括在特定问题上的权威声音。