01
The phone calls heard the tears of the families of the victims
I just wanted to come to the airport first to comfort them
Liu qiu, director of radio and television, hunan university, 21
From high school, i wanted to be a journalist in the future。
I was still studying at the art school, and i had to take a taxi to different places every day, during which i became used to talking to taxi drivers. Every time i finished the call, i recorded the contents of the conversation with the driver, and later a file was produced, which was presented at the examination。
I didn't think it was this first-hand story of my own interview and observation that allowed me to cross the lines of the china media university, an art examiner who was only a second-class student. From then on, i felt like i might be right for the news。
But because of my poor grades, i ended up at hunan university and went to changsha. My specialty is advertising, and it's supposed to be doing film-making。
In freshman year, i and my classmates went to changsha railway station with a camera and made a set of reports and written articles about the vagrant at the station. For the first time since the launch, i have had a different feeling about the news, and the good stuff is valuable, and i can get a good income。
In addition, i like this feeling of communication and recording stories very much. As a result, i began to write and write while looking for practical internships in the news industry, participated in non-fiction-based in-depth training camps, received internships from prominent media outlets in the industry and participated in many breaking news stories。
Last year, for example, when zhengzhou rained, i was given a mission to interview people trapped in the subway. After all, at this very moment of crisis, i felt too cruel to question them. So, i've been diving in the rescue group, and i've been in contact with each other since i made sure they were safe。
But i still have some mustard in my heart, and i feel like i'm using someone else's tragedy to do my job. This is the first time i've felt it."Journalism"and conflict of humanity。
So, even when i finished my paper later, i stayed in the relief community as a volunteer and helped with some sort of information-gathering。
As i become involved in more stories and more and more media teachers, i also begin to think about the relationship between journalism ethics and humanity。
As far as work is concerned, families have the right to refuse interviews with the media when most disasters occur, but not all families do. Because they may be blind and helpless, they do not know what else to see and help themselves, except for the media。
In the aftermath of the mu5735 air crash, i was also helping journalists' teachers to interview the families of the victims in another media. During the interview, when i heard the sobbing of my family, i even impulsively bought a plane ticket from beijing to white cloud airport. 600004) with family members。
I feel that, at a time of deep despair among their families, some of them need to talk or to look for media help, even though i have not graduated, but what i hope is that role。
That is why i admired the professionalism and speed of the characters, who came to my attention at the first hour of reporting on their families, while appreciating the professionalism of the journalists ' teachers。
But it was not surprising that this story was later criticized on the internet, especially when it was criticized by a number of non-news professionals as “eating human blood” and i felt “not worth it” for the journalists' teachers, and began to wonder whether i was going to become a journalist。
Now, the value of being a journalist is low. Some journalists' teachers told me that his salary was only $3,000 higher today than it was 15 years ago, but prices were multiplying and often overstretched。
However, the completion of a text that is as reciprocated as far as possible will require more effort than ever, apart from field investigations, to distinguish between web-wide rumours and to endure unprovoked accusations and even physical attacks on individuals by the “keyman” after the release of the text。
The mismatch between giving and reaping turns the industry's tenacity to be supported by love. Some media predecessors told me that they had met many young people who were suitable for journalism, but they knew that it was too hard to do it and eventually persuaded them to do something else。
I personally feel that being a journalist really requires an effort that no one can understand. Last summer, i spent nearly $7,000 a month in beijing for my internship, rent and meals alone, an idea that i would not have been able to pursue without the help of my parents。
Most of the interns i worked with at the same time were “home-cooked” and, after all, without the support of their families, they would not have been able to take the job in the media。
In particular, the series of disputes caused by the crash made me even more dissatisfied with the media. But for practical reasons, i'm also starting to hesitate, whether or not i want to keep going。
02
A news internship of $5,000 a month is posted
It's hard for ordinary people to understand
Suzhou university
During the first summer, i had the privilege of being an intern in the financial profession, delivering an internship in journalism。
Personally, i prefer writing, and i do not like finance. This is a choice made by parents. So, when i get the news interns, i value it very much。
In the course of my internship, i found that journalism was a relatively close subject, able to communicate with different people, to understand different ways of working, and to write, which kind of kindled my interest in news -- - so simply satisfying curiosity can be a great job。
After the suspension of my internship, i went to the tv station and the newspaper for the next summer。
On one occasion, there was a local fire, and the leadership gave me the first chance to reach out to those responsible. At first, i had no idea but to dial the phone blindly, and after countless rejections, one person was willing to give me the most useful clue. At that time, i felt that this job brought me a sense of achievement that was much better than i learned finance。
In junior year, i started doing journalism. However, parents strongly opposed the idea that i wanted to be a journalist, who thought that the financial sector was well paid and decent and that it was a hard job to be a journalist。
I don't understand my decision either. One of our class's students goes to a major internet factory and earns more than 5,000 a month and pays rent subsidies. At the time of my internship in the new media, i received only over 1,000 internships per month and had to pay $5,000 per month in rent。
The media has a relatively inclusive and open working environment, and my leadership is willing to teach me. Moreover, i often have access to many ordinary people because of work needs, a sense of mission that makes me less self-serving。
I interviewed a civilian police widow who had died in the course of her duties while she was in a state of great despair and helplessness. But after my report was published, she contacted me first, saying that it had enabled many to see the civilian police sacrifice and that she had received some relief as his family。
In the aftermath of the mu5735 air crash, i believe that the mood of most family members is also desperate and helpless, and that, in addition to the help provided by east airlines, airports and insurance companies, they need more comfort, encouragement and greater visibility and understanding from society, which can only be achieved by the media。
I think we're doing the right thing, despite some of the attacks on the characters. Most people, after the death of their loved ones, want that life to be remembered by more people, rather than disappearing in silence。
After thinking about it, i decided to go to the media after my senior year. Income is small, ideal is big, and it is more important to insist on what is right, and only then, if i fail, will i regret that i have not tried。
03
"from news to change."
You just need a few media internships
Liang is moving away
I was admitted to the journalism profession after my third year of high school。
At first, i had only vague notions about the news. Especially since i've seen chai jing's "see" and whitestone's "white word," i always feel that in most social events the media is fighting some dark forces, which gives me some hesitation
While studying at the university, i joined the campus media and participated in a series of news-based social practices. I began to realize that the original journalism profession was sacred and that, while it could not change the world directly, it could change what you, me, he thought of it。
Later on, i started working with some media internships, followed by meetings and press conferences. I found out that in this business, even though i was just an intern, they heard about your media identity, mostly being kind and respectful。
I've learned a lot about my life through a variety of interviews. On one occasion, i happened to have an opportunity to interview entrepreneurs at training institutions and talk to each other face to face for two hours, telling him frankly about his entrepreneurial career and his own struggle during the epidemic。
As the media, all i have to do is record his story and publish relevant articles. But as an individual, as a student, i would not have had access to such people, and would not have heard such valuable experiences in school, had it not been for this job。
After such experiences, let me strengthen the idea of future journalism. However, on one occasion, when our professional senior returned to school to share it, he told me that he was not insisting on journalism, but rather had crossed the line to the internet, when he said, “looking for work, surviving is first and ideal is second”。
Later, almost every older sister who returned to school shared a similar view: “performance must first solve the problems of personal life” and “don't think about eating on the ideal without background”。
I'm surprised and curious. Is this a bad career for a journalist
But reality does not seem to allow me much choice. During the school season, i found that most of the well-known traditional media no longer recruit new people, even if i had a place, while other new media only ask for a volume if i send a quick message, write short, or even ask for a field interview。
After thinking again, i decided to try it out of the media. But since the media isn't as free as i thought, i've done more of the sorting, occasional little interviews, but not deep, far from my ideal media work — i prefer the process of interviewing and writing, difficult as it may be, but very successful。
There is also intense competition from the media, and the homogeneity of the content of the public domain, as well as the “inner volume” between the media, but these “inner volume” do not give individuals a higher income, which may be 50 per cent more than those who work on the internet。
Maybe in a few years, i'm going to cross other fields like my seniors and stop writing. After all, there's a lot of people in this business. I don't have one more. I don't have one more。
And what i'm doing now, it's 18,000 miles from what i've written in journalism, it's not going to change the world, it's not going to change people's minds. If that's all it can be, it's better to guarantee your income。
04
Ivory towers are too bright for news
I'll study in a couple of countries and we'll talk about the news
39, shanghai foreign language university
Our schools are special, and in their first year of life, you learn in the general category of news dissemination, after which you choose a specialization based on hobbies。
At first, i chose the big category of news dissemination as a parent's decision. My father was influenced by him, and i was interested in history, but when i went to college, my father suggested that i should try to start with an integrated profession, and the foreign journalism at shanghai foreign language university was also an advantage in terms of merit。
But then i didn't have much idea of journalism, and i didn't get to know what journalism meant until i went to the school's press programme。
