从《半月谈》看中国主流媒体调查性报道的嬗变

Evolution of the Investigative Reporting of China’s Mainstream Media: A Case Study of China Comment

本文以《半月谈》调查性报道版块为代表性个案,采用传播学中的内容分析法,对近年(2015年-2019年6月)的报道素材进行量化描述,尝试从报道方法、报道内容和报道倾向三个角度深入探讨主流媒体调查性报道在新的社会语境下衍生的新特征和存在问题。然后基于场域理论,分析影响其生产机制的主要因素,并以之为切入口展开对当下调查性报道改革的反观。本文认为《半月谈》调查性报道的自身定位和社会价值,以及政治背景、社会经济等外部场域因子,共同促成了《半月谈》调查性报道新时期的嬗变。并认为当下《半月谈》应增加对生态环境类话题的报道力度。

Taking the investigative reporting of China Comment as a representative case, this paper uses the content analysis method of Communication to quantitatively describe the reporting materials during the development period of media convergence from 2015 to June 2019. It tries to probe into the new characteristics and existing problems of the investigative reporting of China’s mainstream media in a new social context from the perspectives of reporting methods, reporting contents and reporting tendencies. Then, on the basis of field theory, it analyzes the major factors affecting the production mechanism of investigative reporting and thereon reflects on its current reform. It concludes that all the external field factors of the investigative reporting of China Comment such as self-orientation, social values, the political background, and social economy contribute to its evolution during the period of media convergence, and that presently, China Comment should increase the reporting of issues related to ecological environment.