新闻教育与新闻专业主义理念的建构

Journalism Education and the Construction of the Ideas of Professional Journalism

受文化、社会体制和个人教育等因素的影响,新闻从业者现今并没有形成牢固一致的专业理念,新闻离严格意义上的专业还有较远的距离。和新闻专业主义联系甚密的新闻传媒教育虽然在中国有很大的发展,但还没有从新闻从业人员处获得足够的尊严和较高的评价,目前来看其对新闻专业主义的贡献也是有限的。因此,在加强新闻教育中的基本技能训练的同时,进一步提升新闻从业者对于新闻专业理念的追求,将是新闻教育工作中的重中之重。

We conclude journalism is professionalism is being shaped. In fact, not an entirely mature profession. Journalism affected by culture, social system and personal education, Chinese journalists today are hard to be called a professional staff. Journalism education has not acquired enough dignity and high evaluation from journalists. Some people think there is a long distance between education and practice; others feel a lack of things to be compared with students in other professions. Talking with interviewees, we notice that there is a wrong idea that indicated journalism education is of no use. Some media even consider refusing students of journalism major. In our opinion, it does not match the international trend and is to some extend a denial of Chinese journalism education. We find benefits from professional journalism education as follows. Firstly, it can advance journalists＇ sense of responsibility; secondly, it can cultivate their professional ethics; thirdly, it can teach journalists advanced writing and management skills; fourthly, it can offer journalists wide a global outlook; fifthly, it can offer them a profound background of humanism and social sciences. There are some obvious problems in the Chinese journalism education. Firstly, training of professional skills has to be strengthened. The current training education cannot prepare students to handle the practical work in a short time. Secondly, the journalism education lacks hardware, which means that it is difficult for students to command the professional skills. Thirdly, education of theory and practice is somehow disjointed. In order to solve these problems, universities have to collaborate with the media, while the media can participate in journalism education, too. If allowed, universities can even cultivate journalists for the media with certain direction.