The Evolution Of Professional News Photography In The New Media Era

The arrival of the new media era has brought lots of changes in professional news photography.The research must be adjusted with the different situation in order to guide journalists to improve their business.Chinese News Award has a strong influence in China.Its winning works are of high quality and abundant in quantity.These pictures can reflect the development of domestic news photography.This paper,taking the winning works of Chinese News Award as an example,studies the evolution of professional news photography in the new media era through the combination of content analysis and case study.This paper is characterized by a special study of Chinese News Award in the background of new media era.The first chapter is introduction,introduces research purpose and significance of this paper,problems to be solved,research difficulties and innovations,research methods.The second chapter is the research status of Chinese News Award,belongs to the literature review.The part has sorted out the papers of Chinese News Award.It summarizes the cross-study of new media era,Chinese News Award and news photography.In this paper,the concept of new media and new media era is defined by terms,and the basic situation of Chinese News Award is summarized.Therefore,this paper conforms to the characteristics of the new period.And it refers to the problems that experts have ignored in the past.The third chapter is the status and value of news photography in the new media era.News pictures gradually become important roles in news.And news media is increasingly demanding of news pictures.Sometimes news pictures have more influence than words.In addition to the function of recording news events,news pictures also help audiences enhance self-cultivation and gain emotional resonance.The fourth chapter is the cause of the evolution of professional news photography.In this paper,the reason is attributed to Internet technology upgrade and equipment update of news photography.It holds that technology and equipment affect thinking and action of photographers and ordinary audiences.The audiences change the habit of reading pictures.And the photographers try to transcend the quality of their works.The fifth chapter is the representation of the evolution of professional news photography,which is the key chapter of this paper.This paper studies from the topic selection,value setting,artistic design,shooting angle,screen capture and image effect.It finds that the arrival of the new media era has influenced the winning works of Chinese News Award.But the influence is limited.The winning works of Chinese News Award follow the previous styles in the topic selection and value setting.These pictures are only slightly adjusted in according to the different situation.At present,some works are prominent in the artistic design,shooting angle,screen capture and image effect.These pictures only are taken with existing technology and equipment.But the number of such works is limited.The photographers are still exploring the artistic boundaries of news photography.The sixth chapter is the responsibility and countermeasure of the photographers.Internet technology upgrade and equipment update of news photography brought convenience to photographers.But it did not reduce the work of photographers.The photographers need to constantly improve their business.The photographers should have the ability to shoot the works conform to the standards of high quality in the new period;also have the ability to select the images taken by ordinary people.Good works can be published in newspapers or on the Internet.The new media era is very strict with photographers.To some extent,I hope this paper can reflect the influence of the new media era to professional news photography and let others add a preliminary understanding of Chinese News Award.After all,Chinese News Award represents leading standard and high level as an important award in the industry.And this prize will continue to witness the development of news photography.