Is it appropriate to have a question and answer article in the newspaper?

After reading the following article, I believe all your questions will be solved (at least I am)

As for your so-called awkwardness, it is because the writer's writing is immature.

The article is very long, you should learn from it. I wish you happy reading!

Question and answer news is a common form of news writing. In recent years, this form has risen rapidly and flourished in China's newspapers and periodicals, and is in the ascendant. Question-and-answer news is mainly used to interview this kind of news style-the interviewee is special, the interview content is special, the interview angle is exclusive, and it is often used to report the discussion of a certain issue by many people. Q&A news is generally divided into three types: explicit Q&A, implicit Q&A and multi-person Q&A.

The content of obvious question-and-answer news mainly records the original words of journalists and interviewees, which embodies the "dialogue" between journalists and interviewees. This kind of question-and-answer news is widely used in "question interview" (also called "opinion interview"), "speech interview" or "academic interview" which mainly records speeches. The reporter conducted a special interview on the problems that people care about and need to solve urgently in social life and practical work, and asked relevant people to answer them. It can be said that before these interviews, the reporter has already completed the identification of the writing form, and the news he (she) is going to write is almost a question-and-answer type. Because the essence of "question interview", "speech interview" or "academic interview" is to record opinions, opinions and opinions. There is no need to write too much about the interviewer's own description and expression.

"Interview with questions" ("interview with opinions") is highly targeted in reality. Its function is to solve problems for readers in time, to provide opinions for decision makers, and to spread knowledge and guide public opinion.

For example, on July 2, 2004, an interview with a newspaper in Beijing: Yuanyuan: What I want to do most is "charging". I interviewed Yuanyuan, a famous program host of the Seventh Day of Beijing TV Station. The reporter asked Yuanyuan questions about readers' concerns:

Reporter: Bai once said that Beijing TV Station is not a very favorable place to train excellent hosts, because it has been revised too frequently and its hosts have changed too much. Do you agree with this view?

This phenomenon exists. A pillar should be built from top to bottom, but most of the current situation is that the pillar is left to fend for itself, and no one cares. Fortunately, we are now aware of this problem. But sometimes the host will feel discouraged after working for a long time, just like a speeding car on the highway, there is no gas station and he can't stop. This state is very uncomfortable. Now I think keeping my brain still is the happiest thing, so what I want to do most now is to find a time to "recharge" myself.

Reporter: In the Seventh Day, many programs are composed of some performances and sketches. For example, there is a program that reflects that people in modern society get together for dinner with a purpose. Will this way violate the truth of the news? Is the positioning of the seventh day still a news program?

I think the truth lies not in whether the time and environment of the incident are true, but in the truth of the news facts. Eating is actually real. After all, what we do is not unexpected events or hard news, but mainly reflects the phenomenon of life. Our program is now on the Life Channel. In principle, it should be regarded as a life topic program.

The best combination of this kind of "question interview" ("opinion interview") is generally "authoritative person+authoritative point of view" or "authoritative person+latest point of view", which is not only targeted, but also weighty. The advantage of this question-and-answer news is that it can reproduce the interview content well, and it is authentic and readable. Moreover, the interviewees vary from person to person and have their own unique personalities: some are humorous, some are solemn, some are gentle and delicate, and some are heroic and heroic ... Using this recording question and answer method, the original appearance of the dialogue can be preserved to the maximum extent, and there are few traces of artificial drilling. For example, when farage, a famous Italian female journalist, interviewed Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 1972, she adopted a question-and-answer method to keep the original flavor of the interview. The colloquial details such as pauses, exclamations and modal particles in Indira Gandhi's answers were preserved by farage. This natural way of writing conveys a unique conversation atmosphere and makes readers feel immersive.

Of course, the disadvantage of this obvious question-and-answer news is that the length of question-and-answer is generally long, occupying a large number of pages in the newspaper. And the wonderful degree of the content depends on the interaction between the reporter and the interviewee. If the question and answer is not wonderful, the appeal of the article will be greatly weakened. In addition, this kind of question-and-answer news is inevitably thin and boring because it is limited to one question and one answer.

Therefore, there are also many journalists who get rid of the simple question-and-answer mode, freely choose the question-and-answer content according to the needs of reporting, and use various methods such as description, discussion and lyricism to connect the interview scenes and processes into articles. This kind of hidden question-and-answer news is mainly used to interview all kinds of people and some events.

For example, on June 14, 2000, People's Daily, the sixth edition of the overseas edition, adopted this writing in the article "Yao Yao, the winner of the three-time news award in the Netherlands". In the article, the author introduces the personal situation of Yao Yao, the winner of "Jose", and the way she won the prize, interspersed with questions and answers between reporters and Yao Yao:

In February this year, in the 43rd World Photojournalism Competition (WPP), a group photo of China dancer Chen returned to the stage taken by a reporter from China News Service won the first prize of the Art Award. At that time, some media in China publicized the young Yao Yao. After all, he was the highest prize winner of China's photo in WPP.

Yao Yao's name is no stranger to me. When she was a primary school student, she took photos of primary school students wearing new school uniforms and won the national good news award. Since then, she has been fascinated by photography. /kloc-I interviewed her 0/4 years ago. At that time, she was a student in the middle school attached to Beijing Normal University and held a personal photography exhibition at the school. She impressed me as calm, pure, diligent and enterprising. This time, Yao Yao, who is in her thirties, has matured a lot, but she is still serene and peaceful, without losing the innocence of a girl.

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"I heard that your two jokes in Holland came true later, didn't they?"

"1998, my first trip to Europe. When I left the Netherlands, I told a person in charge in Jose that this was my first time in the Netherlands and I hoped to attend a master photography class in the Netherlands for the second time. Later, my dream came true. At the end of the master class, I joked that if I can go to Holland for the third time, I hope to receive the prize. Fortunately, I won the prize in Jose this time. "

"Why did you choose the theme" 60-year-old dancers return to the stage "? "

"The theme of the summer homework of the Dutch master class is' strength'. My first reaction was to shoot Chen Ailian continuously. "

Two years ago, 60-year-old dancer Chen returned to the stage to perform China's classical dance drama A Dream of Red Mansions. I spent four days in Chen's dance school on my wedding leave and finished a set of picture stories. ...

"I think your film has taken away the strength of a struggling woman and entered Chen's heart at the same time. There seems to be a sense of loneliness in her heart, and it is this sense of loneliness and vicissitudes that has a shocking power. "

"Thank you for your understanding of my work. My editorial clue is: loneliness-struggle-being lonely again when encountering difficulties-winning success. " "Loneliness is the essence of Chen, I know. ……"

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Compared with the obvious question-and-answer news, the writing technique of this kind of hidden question-and-answer news is more flexible. By inserting questions and answers in the middle of the article, the report is rich and full, leaving a lot of writing and innovation space for reporters and increasing readers' reading interest. It is true that this kind of hidden question-and-answer news can't completely reproduce the content of the interview, and it may also lead to the lack of important information because of the reporter's subjective reasons, so that readers can't see the overall question-and-answer thinking.

There is also a question and answer news, which is a multi-person question and answer news, that is, many people discuss a certain problem. For example, on July 2, 2004, People's Daily, the seventh edition, asked questions about Sino-Japanese relations, which was a news with many people answering questions:

Question 1: How to position Sino-Japanese relations in the international strategic pattern in the new century? What are the common interests between China and Japan? In the process of promoting East Asian cooperation, is there a problem of China and Japan competing for dominance?

Jiang Changbin (former director of the Institute of International Strategy of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee):

Brzezinski, an American strategic theorist, said in a speech in China at the beginning of this year that there are three political and economic centers that determine the future fate of the world, namely, the United States, the European Union and East Asia, and the core of East Asia is China and Japan. The key is to properly handle the political relations between China and Japan. His views are quite recognized by international public opinion. Japan is the third largest economy in the world, and China is influencing the international economy with sustained and rapid development, which shows the importance of China and Japan to the world structure.

Iokibe Makoto (Professor, Law School, Kobe University):

It is believed that from 1955 to 1972, the Japanese economy has created a "miracle" of rapid growth. However, China's economy started from 1980, creating a "super miracle" rapid growth for 25 years. The rapid development by leaps and bounds like this is always accompanied by friction and war in history. If a win-win relationship is established between Japan, which is rich and has a lot of advanced technology, and China, which is rising, then East Asia will become the main axis of the world.

Li Chunming (Deputy Political Commissar of PLA Navy)

Throughout history and reality, the fundamental reason why contradictions and conflicts between many countries, ethnic groups and religions are difficult to solve lies in their own ways, paying too much attention to their own interests and trusting their respective abilities. At the same time, it is also because of the lack of motivation and mechanism to adjust and restrict these contradictions internationally. The earth is our common home. In this home, a public relations law has naturally formed: live by yourself, ask others to live, and everyone can live better together! A rational and far-sighted country must learn to put itself in the other's shoes, considering its own survival and development interests as well as those of other countries, and constantly seek new strength and balance of interests. Thinking and acting from narrow nationalism and extreme national egoism is bound to be the bitter fruit of the countries concerned, and the world will never be peaceful. China and Japan had a tragic war history in modern times, but they also had a history of good-neighborly friendship for thousands of years. We should never forget the past, but we should remember this famous saying.

Shi (Director, Center for American Studies, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China):

As long as we really care about China's future security, prosperity and rise to become a powerful country, we can understand the importance of Japan to China and the importance of establishing normal political relations between China and Japan. This importance is determined by China's geographical environment and Japan's comprehensive strength, as well as Japan-US military/diplomatic alliance and some special ties between Japan and Taiwan Province Province.

This kind of multi-person question-and-answer news generally focuses on major issues related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and participants can express their opinions, because multi-person question-and-answer news has the characteristics of openness, allowing all parties to confront each other from different angles and sides around the topic, which is helpful to broaden their thinking, broaden their ways of speaking, arouse people's thinking and stimulate the sparks of readers' thoughts.

The appearance of question-and-answer news puts forward new standards and requirements for journalists, who should abandon that condescending attitude and maintain an equal, peaceful and confident mentality. In question-and-answer news, journalists should communicate and learn from the interviewees on an equal basis. Only in this way can journalists achieve good results in interviews and writing. In addition, journalists must temper themselves into a journalist with ideas and opinions in order to be competent in writing question-and-answer news. A reporter must have the ability to communicate with the interviewee, and the questions raised by the reporter must arouse the interviewee's desire to answer, so that the reporter can easily control the topic during the interview. Confrontation, collision, complementarity and sublimation in question and answer have produced impacts that other news styles can't produce.

Question-and-answer news also puts forward higher requirements for journalists' interview ability. A question-and-answer interview is like a battlefield of close combat. Journalists must make full preparations before the interview, such as collecting relevant information and brewing their own opinions and questions. In the interview, we should also master the interview skills and art and strive for the initiative in the interview.

Our country is in the period of social transformation, people's lifestyle is facing changes, and people's ideas are also being impacted. How to know, understand and evaluate various ideas and how to adapt to the development of contemporary society has become an increasingly strong and universal spiritual and psychological requirement of the public. In this way, the question-and-answer news, which broadens people's thinking, inspires people's thinking and inspires people to discuss and contend, has a more suitable social soil and a broader development space.