The related storm of Yangzhou Evening News

Yangzhou Evening News is famous at home and abroad for its forgery of newspapers and its winning the highest news award in China. In March 2007, Cheng Jianping, assistant editor-in-chief of Yangzhou Evening News, took a series of photos of "Millennium Ancient City Won the UN Habitat Award" and submitted them to the17th China Prize for Journalism. On August 28th, 2007, 17 China Prize for Journalism was announced. The A5 special issue of Yangzhou Evening News won the third prize in the category of photographic works with the Millennium Ancient City Winning the UN Habitat Award. After the selection, China Journalists Association publicized the winning works on the Internet and accepted social supervision. Subsequently, the award was exposed as a fake page that did not exist, and public opinion was in an uproar. The Yangzhou Evening News actually published a special issue that day, called "24-hour Snapshot of Living in Yangzhou", which talked about the life and local culture of Yangzhou people. The photos, authors and editors on the page are completely different from the winning works. There are banner advertisements under the newspaper.

After being exposed by netizens, the All-China Journalists Association, the organizer of the China News Award, said that Yangzhou Evening News had declared the award with false reports and has now been disqualified. According to reports, since the publication of Yangzhou Evening News, no news work has ever won the China Prize for Journalism. In order to win the China Prize in Journalism, the newly appointed President Wang Genbao-xiong has repeatedly promised that if he can win the China Prize in Journalism, he will get a bonus of 654.38 million yuan and promotion opportunities.

Related media comments:

On June 8, 2007, Southern Metropolis Daily published a commentary saying: "Behind this extraordinary imagination, there is a motivation to pursue interests, but more is the vanity and frivolity of a news organization that lacks professional literacy. It doesn't respect itself and its own system. This joke is just revenge for a system that doesn't respect professionalism. " Yangzhou Evening News and its subordinate Yangzhou Daily attached great importance to the Millennium Ancient City's winning the UN Habitat Award and the China News Award. For a journalist and his news unit, it is a great honor to win the China News Award, which represents the highest level of national news works, not to mention winning a landmark award for the first time. But the pursuit of winning the prize needs to be achieved through legal channels. If the submitted works meet the requirements and standards for winning the prize, or "although the news is true, the works were shot and published by myself", such as "The Millennium Ancient City won the UN Habitat Award", even if it finally won the prize, it would be a kind of "unfair procedure".

On September 25, 2007, People's Daily commented: "It not only hurts the credibility of awards and winning works, but also brings negative social evaluation to the reputation of authors and selected units. For the media and journalists engaged in journalism, this negative evaluation of reputation will affect the credibility of the whole media. If a media does not hesitate to "fake" through "one newspaper and two editions" in order to win the prize, then readers will have doubts about the reports of this media in the future. " "If journalists participate in the evaluation through illegal fraud for promotion and rating, it not only reflects their utilitarianism and vanity in pursuing fame and fortune, but also exposes their disdain for the evaluation system and underestimation of the IQ of the judges and the public."

According to the news of Ming Pao on September 14, 2007, the person in charge of the Journalists Association denied that there was a problem with the competition evaluation system. She explained that more than 65,438+0,000 awards are reported every year, which are recommended by local newspapers and TV stations. Journalists basically believe in the integrity of the media, and it is impossible for journalists to send people to the whole country to verify the authenticity of all entries. The person in charge also said that in order to ensure the authenticity of the winning works, there will be two seven-day "publicity periods" after the winning works are published, and people can put forward different opinions and complaints, and the Journalists Association will seriously handle and trace them. There are also four levels within the judges to review the declared entries.

On June 5438+1October 65438+August, 2007, China Media Network published the article "Perfecting the Supervision Mechanism of China News Award —— From the" Fake Edition Award "Incident of Yangzhou Evening News". The article believes that the fake version of the award event reflects the loopholes in the award mechanism. "The problem works were not exposed during the publicity period. First of all, explain that the insiders didn't notice or didn't notice the publicity. This proves that although the publicity has achieved certain results, the publicity is not enough and the public participation enthusiasm is not high. " "The existing publicity period may be too short, and the publicity information has not been disseminated among the public, resulting in some insiders not being able to participate in it in time." "Journalists pay attention to sending public opinions to the judges for reference, which is worthy of recognition. But I didn't expect the judge to give feedback on the handling opinions after reference. There seems to be suspicion of propaganda. " And "The 17th China Prize for Journalism", among the 70 judges, 64 are leaders of news units at all levels in China, and only 6 are from news teaching and research units. In a huge jury, journalists are insignificant. The single composition of the jury is doomed that no matter how to avoid it by rotation, they may have some connection with the participating news organizations, not to mention that some media where the jury is located have works directly involved in the award. "Therefore, it is necessary to further improve the supervision mechanism of rewards, introduce accountability and strengthen verification.

After the incident was reported, the leaders of Yangzhou Daily and Yangzhou Evening News made an in-depth inspection and removed Cheng Jianping from the post of director of photography department of Yangzhou Evening News. On September 17, 2007, Yangzhou Evening News published a message informing about the handling situation and apologizing to the readers. However, many people in the industry believe that the media's handling of the incident is not self-disciplined enough and the punishment is not strict. In order to cheat the China Prize for Journalism, a newspaper sacrificed the credibility of China Newspaper, cheated all the judges of the China Prize for Journalism with team behavior, and submitted a false newspaper layout to participate in the selection, which in itself constituted a serious violation of journalistic professional ethics-and it was also a team behavior. In the past, fraud was generally made by individual editors or journalists. This is the first time that the whole team has made fraud. The fraud of Yangzhou Evening News has reached its peak! However, Chen, the former editor-in-chief of Yangzhou Evening News, participated in forging the newspaper and won the prize, and the editor in charge of typesetting signed it. Not only was he not punished, but he was promoted to editor-in-chief of Yangzhou Daily. In addition, Wang Genbao, president of Yangzhou Daily, who has the leadership responsibility for this matter, and others have not been dealt with. Xu Lin, a famous photojournalist in China, believes that the resignation mechanism should be introduced into the China press. He believes that China press, China Journalists Association and China General Administration of Press and Publication should make up their minds to start with this case, introduce the mechanism of "taking the blame and resigning" in China press, and immediately remove the post of president and editor-in-chief of Yangzhou Evening News.