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What are the basic requirements and qualities of being a photojournalist?

The basic requirements and qualities of photojournalists are generally suitable for the professional requirements and qualities of journalists, because photojournalists are first and foremost journalists. But being a photojournalist is definitely different. With the advent of the "digital age" in the new century, the competition in timeliness and space of news photography has intensified, and photographers have also encountered unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In the face of the impact of online media, which combines the advantages of newspapers, radio and television, it has become a top priority for us "traditional" photographers to quickly change our concepts, improve our own quality and adapt to the needs of picture communication under the new situation. The author believes that in the new historical period, our photojournalists must have and strive to improve the following six qualities.

Rich and keen news inspiration. The times are developing and the society is progressing. Nowadays, our life is changing with each passing day. As a photojournalist, we must cultivate and improve our ability to respond quickly and accurately to emergencies, have keen intuition, judgment and foresight on news value, and know what kind of photos our newspaper (media) needs and what kind of photos our readers want to see. This requires photographers to seriously study and clarify the party's line, principles and policies, and practice the hard work of "suddenly realizing and getting it by accident" from colorful daily interviews.

Professional and knowledgeable knowledge literacy. Some people say that a photojournalist is good now. Isn't he just holding the camera and pressing the automatic shutter? This is a terrible statement. In fact, a good photojournalist not only needs professional knowledge, such as familiarity with cameras, lenses and photography techniques; A solid grasp of emerging digital technology, transmission technology and news interview requires all useful social knowledge except photography technology and news interview, such as social science, natural science, public relations and so on. Photographers should also be saints. Usually, we should read more books and practice more, actively expand our knowledge and practice the kung fu of "leaning on a horse to treat him". Only in this way can we be comfortable at work and capture wonderful moments. Synchronization efficiency of quick response. Nowadays, in the "picture-reading era" and "network era", the audience's demand for information tends to be short, flat and fast. How to highlight the news value of news pictures is an important factor to ensure the "first timeliness" of news pictures. News photographers should strive to master digital technology, improve the speed of photo production and dissemination, and speed up the synchronization with news events. Strive for newspaper layout and cyberspace with the quality of photos and the speed of publication.

"Can write and type" writing level. With the popularity of digital and automatic cameras in recent years, as well as the "equal emphasis on pictures and texts" in news communication, amphibious journalists with pens in one hand and cameras in the other suddenly increased. This has greatly weakened the "monopoly" advantage of full-time photographers, and undoubtedly brought great pressure and impact to full-time photographers. Only by seizing opportunities, meeting challenges and constantly strengthening their self-cultivation and practice in news theory and writing level can full-time photographers not fall behind the times.

Harmonious and good public relations. With the refinement of social division of labor and the complexity of interpersonal relationships, photographers must earnestly strengthen their ideological quality and professional ethics, be modest and prudent, and be kind to others. Learn to be good at dealing with anyone, make friends with anyone, win harmonious interpersonal relationships for yourself, and get rich news resources. At the same time, we should pay attention to making friends with photographers around us and at the grassroots level, respect their labor achievements, help them make progress, and let the source of life constantly enrich and broaden journalists' photographic lenses.

Innovative shooting consciousness. Nowadays, many of our photographers are complacent when they make small achievements. They are always intoxicated and wandering between their own works and ideas, lacking the sense of innovation and crisis that keeps pace with the times, and often prefer to stay in the "stylized" and "machine+people" photo shooting mode in the past. This is not only the enemy of modern news photographers' innovation, but also unable to integrate with the news communication of the times. Only by keeping a clear head at all times, being prepared for danger in times of peace, studying hard and being brave in innovation can our news photographers surpass others, surpass themselves and bring forth new ideas, and shoot more and better news photography works worthy of the times in the media competition in the new century.