How to improve your news writing level?

First of all, we should fully understand the importance of news propaganda and reporting. In today's information age, it is definitely not feasible to know whether grass-roots journalists talk about news propaganda and reporting, just talking about it will get twice the result with half the effort. Our correspondent on the news front is the mouthpiece of the enterprise, which is to widely publicize all the work and achievements made by the enterprise, let more people know and understand the enterprise, establish a good external image for the enterprise and win a good reputation for the enterprise. At the same time, we should also love the cause of news propaganda and reporting. There is a saying that interest is the best teacher, and you will fall in love with it if you are interested. As a grass-roots reporter, it is a hard job to engage in publicity and reporting. Sometimes, for a manuscript, I often sit at my desk late at night, racking my brains and writing hard, and the manuscript may be lost. In addition, the process of judging the information demand, evaluating the information value, gradually accumulating and deeply processing information materials before writing news articles also takes up a lot of time and energy, which requires correspondents to endure loneliness, face various challenges consciously and persistently, and pay several times more efforts and painstaking efforts than ordinary people. Only in this way can we gradually get better and finally achieve positive results. Therefore, we grass-roots journalists can only enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, cultivate their interest in news writing from the bottom of their hearts, and love news propaganda and reporting.

Second, studying hard and writing more are the basis of writing good news reports. With the deepening of power system reform, a grass-roots correspondent, especially a journalist of county-level power supply enterprises, often holds several posts, and news writing basically occupies his spare time. Coupled with the limited sources of news information at the grassroots level, it is impossible to encounter earth-shattering news every day. If you want to "show your face" in newspapers and magazines, it is difficult to make achievements without diligence. As the saying goes, diligence can make up for mistakes, so we should strive to cultivate our own news sensitivity and insight and master the basic methods and skills of news writing. The way to learn is very simple. On the one hand, I use my spare time to read more books and newspapers, strengthen the study of relevant business knowledge and the understanding of materials, and find news points from them. On the other hand, I often go out and go deep into the first-line interviews to capture news clues through my own personal feelings. Therefore, as a grass-roots reporter, news writing should not only have the basic skills of being diligent in hand (writing), legs (going deep into the grass-roots level), mouth (asking) and brain (thinking), but also carefully study the news articles published in newspapers and magazines to make the right seats. Because newspapers have different reporting focuses in different periods; Each page also has its own emphasis and its own fixed columns. Therefore, grass-roots reporters should form the habit of reading newspapers every day, and on the basis of carefully studying the contents of reports in various pages and columns, combining with the actual work of their own units, sorting out materials, choosing a good angle, carefully collecting and writing according to the pages and columns of newspapers, and sitting in the right place, which can greatly improve the hit rate of manuscripts. As a grass-roots reporter, if you want to broaden the coverage, you should not only write the distinctive news and newsletters around you, but also closely contact with the actual business management and reflect the hot, difficult and focused issues that employees care about in time. The manuscript in this respect can be in the form of pictures, speeches and letters from readers, so as to enhance the practical guiding role of publicity and reporting. The article was published in newspapers and magazines, and a sense of accomplishment was born. While we are excited, we should also calm down and carefully study and compare the manuscript with our own manuscript in time to see what changes the editor has made from the title to the content. Through repeated study, writing and correction, our writing level will continue to improve. While writing a newsletter, you should always read other people's manuscripts published in newspapers and periodicals, learn from them, make up for your own shortcomings, and then apply them to your work. At the same time, in continuous study and work, we should be good at understanding and communicating with others. Just as war needs to know ourselves and ourselves, marketing needs to understand the needs, and being a correspondent should also be good at understanding and communicating. Keep abreast of current affairs and policies of enterprises, and analyze the propaganda orientation of various propaganda media at this stage. If we compare a propaganda manuscript to a commodity and a newspaper editor to a customer, we must first understand what users need and what articles they need, and then write articles. After finding the demand, we should pay attention to marketability, that is, we should actively understand the theme and main content of each page of the newspaper and deliver the manuscript in a targeted manner, so that we can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Third, being good at observing and summarizing in news propaganda reports is one of the effective ways to improve one's own quality. Each of us is in an ordinary job, and there are not so many vigorous events around us for us to report. We can only find different things in ordinary small things through careful observation and understanding at ordinary times, and make them produce reported value through summary. In addition, be good at grasping. The "point" here refers to news points. Every news report should have its news value, which is reflected in this point. Every job an enterprise does has its purpose, and this purpose is often carried out around the hot spots and key points of current work. Therefore, when writing a press release, we should not only truly describe the cause, process and result of news events, but also constantly explore the meaning and purpose behind news events, and clearly point out and hit the nail on the head in the manuscript to avoid writing a manuscript that is overwhelmed and lacks connotation. Be good at making full use of news pictures. Because news pictures are conversational reports, a news picture with clear explanation and strong visual impact is better than a thousand words description. A good news photo with a few brief explanations is a good photo news, which is easily favored by editors and readers. We must also be good at "preparing for a rainy day." Everyone knows the meaning of taking precautions, that is, preparing in advance. Writing a manuscript is the same, and you can't fight unprepared. Before an enterprise engages in any activity, it must first understand the theme, purpose and significance of the activity, make a good manuscript in mind, observe and explore carefully during the activity, and then successfully write a news report after the activity. We should be good at grasping the timeliness of news. In other words, we must have the awareness of timely publicity and reporting, and we must report news events in time, otherwise the timeliness of news has passed, and it is meaningless to write a news propaganda draft. For example, to publicize and report the service work of the "two sessions", and then write a manuscript after the "two sessions", no matter how wonderful it is, it will not be adopted. Therefore, grasping the timeliness of news is another key to whether it can be reported. Be good at learning and thinking, read more books and newspapers at ordinary times, find the starting point of your own writing, improve your quality through learning, constantly enrich yourself and learn from each other's strengths. Especially the correspondent comrades who have just started to step into the news propaganda report, it is best to read more articles written by others, constantly sum up and explore, and improve their writing level.

Fourth, mastering the writing skills and methods of news propaganda reports is the guarantee to improve the quality of news writing manuscripts. Collecting and writing high-quality news articles is an important standard to test a correspondent's working ability and professional level, and it is also one of the important ways to improve the manuscript submission rate. Before writing every time, you must first judge whether the object you want to write is news and whether it has reportable value. If you don't make this clear, even if you spend a lot of effort and sweat, the effect may not be good, and the chances of the manuscript sinking into the sea are even greater. This requires us to be conscientious in our work and life, think ahead, always observe and think from the perspective of "nothing new", express different views and opinions from different angles, and improve the hit rate of manuscripts. On the one hand, efforts should be made to improve the quality of news articles. Mr. Lu Xun said: Remember people, it is best to remember his eyes. Because the eyes are the windows of the soul, which can best reflect people's elegance and charm. For a news propaganda manuscript, the title is like a "literary eye", which is very important. Therefore, look at people first, the text first, and the topic first. Unfortunately, the eyes of literature are smart and bright, which often determines the hit rate of manuscripts. When our reporter contributes to the newspaper, the first impression to the editor is the title, so we should carefully scrutinize it and tolerate no carelessness. Of course, everyone has different standards on how to make a good title, but there are three basic points: First, it should be appropriate, eye-catching and vivid. The second is to be shorter and more concise. The third is to have personality, make people feel refreshed, and avoid conformity. On the other hand, the manuscript is rich in content. First, we must find the key points and grasp the word "early". That is, combining the central work of the enterprise in various periods, it can quickly and timely reflect the achievements of the unit in safety production and management. The second is to reflect hot spots and closely follow the word "live". In other words, we should always go deep into the front line, understand the ideological trends of employees, reflect the voices and wishes of employees, and keenly discover and capture things that are strongly reflected and universal among employees. The third is to focus on the key points and strive for a "quasi" word. In other words, when reflecting various problems, we should persist in seeking truth from facts, report good news and bad news, and strive to be accurate and true, without exaggerating or narrowing the facts. The fourth is to grasp the characteristics and highlight a "new" word. In other words, we should base ourselves on reality, dig out special and new things in enterprise management in time, and write our own characteristics, advantages and pioneering experiences and achievements different from other units.

In short, as long as you have a strong sense of responsibility and mission in your ordinary job, study hard, write more, practice more and be brave in dedication, you can improve your news writing level and make a difference in the news propaganda front.