Techniques of Narrative Journalism: Five Chapters

Author: Huang Jiaxiong
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: Narrative news must be compelling and stimulating to strengthen writing research. Writing narrative news is a complex information engineering. Summarizing the entire writing process, the main focus is on two aspects: what to write and how to write. What to write? This primarily involves selecting subjects. The subjects of narrative news come from real life. To choose good subjects, the author must first obtain them, and obtaining subjects relies on interviews. Interviews are a specialized discipline in journalism, with complete and systematic theories and methods, and many monographs have discussed and summarized them. Based on the writing purpose of this monograph, we will only discuss how to select subjects based on the author's interviews. This writing process of narrative news is a process where objective subjects and the author's mind blend and transform into information carriers. In this transformation, the author is key. If the transformation is successful, it first depends on the author's interview foundation and profound thinking. However, another important factor cannot be ignored, which is the series of techniques applied throughout the transformation process.