On the afternoon of May 29, Ms. Wu Yi of the University Party Publicity Department gave a lecture titled “Introduction to university news writing”. The seminar was chaired by SFL Deputy Party Secretary and Deputy Dean Xia Jianru. Faculty journalists, some department deans, and correspondents of the Youth League Journalism Department, School departments, and classes listened to the lecture.
Having been engaged in the publicity work of the University for quite a few years, Ms. Wu Yi has gained a lot of experiences in news writing. In her lecture, she elaborated the writing of news from four aspects, that is clarifying news concept, grasping the relationship between variation and invariability, capturing three supporting points, and mastering four events and four aspects. She resorted to her personal experiences to expound the issues of discovering news, excavating the news value, fixing the point to start, and writing news with features. In the course of her lecture, she cited several authentic pieces of news for example to illustrate her point of view. The lecture by Ms. Wu taught a lot of knowledge about news to the students, deepened their understanding of news planning, and offered them some useful tips for news writing.
(School of Foreign Languages)