A Research On Deng Tuo's Press Activities And Thought Of Journalism

Deng Tuo is a versatile person with great learning, and has important achievements in many aspects. He is not only the experienced editor and historian of great attainments, but also well known as the writer, the poet, the calligrapher and the cultural relic connoisseur of considerable talent. During his lifetime, he engages in the editing and publishing of newspapers for nearly 30 years, taking charge of the party newspaper for up to 20 years. He writes huge quantities of editorials and articles, making a valuable contribution to the proletarian journalism of our country. As an outstanding journalist, his press activities and thought of journalism are highly typical and representative in the journalism history of the Chinese Communist Party.Deng Tuo's press activities can be divided into three stages: During the first stage he dedicated himself to the revolutionary cause with his pen, worked in Jing Cha Ji Daily, which acted as a trumpet to give impetus to national liberation under his leadership. The second one is during his time with People's Daily that was determined to reform and brought about a new situation with Deng Tuo playing the leading role. The third one is during his time with the magazine Front Line. He wielded his pen to record the truth and safeguarded the Marxism truth, showing his lofty aspirations regardless of threat to life.Deng Tuo's thought of journalism may be summarized as five main contents: First, going deep into the practice and taking reality as report criterion, Deng Tuo thought the newsroom's work should put emphasis on the outside of the newspaper office, but not the inside of that. The editor, reporter, correspondent and all the leading cadre had to take action to go deep into the fact to investigate affair systematically, and dare to reflect the problem realistically by Comrade Mao Zedong's thought.