WithInformation ageAs a result, a variety of new demands have been placed on the form of news coverage and many new operations (e. G., visual news and news videoconferencing) will be incorporated into the news and communications network. Particularly after the 1980s, the rapid development of microelectronics, computers and communications technology has led to the continuous upgrading of the network. International news agencies in developed countries have made extensive use of computers in their news and communications networks to enable the processing of information and communicationsAutomationThat is, the automation of news collection, preparation, dispatch, forwarding, storage and retrieval has resulted in paperless editing. The introduction of digital communications, the rental of broadband digital circuits and the formation of a news digital communications network, with 1,500 chinese words per second (a transmission rate of 56 or 64 kbit/s), have significantly increased the timeliness of news transmission。
