新闻文体分析.ppt

English of News Reporting (I) I. Definition 1） News is any event, idea or opinion that is timely, that interests or affects a large number of people in a community and that is capable of being understood by them. 2）News is the reporting of anything timely which has importance,use,or interest to a considerable number of persons in a publication audience. 3） If a dog bites a man, it is not news; if a man bites a dog, its （big） news. Here is a practical “formula” for “What can be news”: ordinary people + ordinary thing≠news ordinary people + unordinary thing = news unordinary people + ordinary thing = news unordinary people + unordinary thing = big (good) news II. News Value timeliness / freshness importance / consequence /impact, significance prominence nearness / proximity / locality unusualness / bizarreness / oddity / novelty interest III. Classification 1. Quality papers (heavy papers/ serious papers/ the heavies/ posh papers) e.g. The Times The Daily Telegraph The New York Times The Washington Post Popular papers (mass papers/ muck-raking papers/ tabloids / sport-and-scandal papers) e.g. The Daily Express / The Daily Mirror The Times is read by the people who run the country. The Guardian is read by the people who think they ought to run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by the people who own the country. The Daily Express is read by the people who think the country ought to be run as it used to be run. 2. According to the nature of news hard news /spot news/straight news soft news 3. According to the contents of the coverage political news economic news technological news cultural news sports news violence and crime news disaster news weather news obituary entertainment Front Page International National Report Obituaries Editorials, Op-Ed and Letters The Metro