What is the average life expectancy of journalists?

The average life expectancy of journalists is only 45.7 years.

The original source of data, as early as 2000, Shanghai conducted a health survey on journalists from 10 media. The results show that the average age of the dead employees is only 45.7 years old, and the proportion of death from cancer is as high as 72.7%. The average age of hospitalization due to illness is 44.2 years old, and the highest proportion of diseases is cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. More than half of journalists are in a state of illness and sub-health. Xiao Dongsheng, secretary of the Secretariat of China Journalists Association, announced this news for the first time at the Fourth National Journalists' Tennis Competition at the end of 2000. Subsequently, the reporter magazine in Shanghai published the health survey in detail. Since then, there has been a statistic that the average age of dead journalists is only 45.7 years old, which has appeared in different domestic media many times in the form of quotations.

A common-sense problem is that the average age of a 45.7-year-old journalist who died is by no means the average life expectancy of a journalist, which are completely two concepts; At the same time, it is also a question whether the full-time employees of Shanghai 10 media can represent all journalists in China. It is obviously a bad concept to use the average age of the death toll of some media in a city as the life expectancy index of people in the same industry in China. At the same time, the experts who published this data did not explain the source of the data or the limitations of this survey, which obviously violated the basic medical ethics.

During this year's Olympic Games, Zheng Li, a reporter from Beijing TV Station, died suddenly while filming in Athens, Yuri Bikov, a famous Russian sports photographer, died suddenly in Athens, and a senior editor of Shenyang Ball newspaper died suddenly while watching the Olympic Games. These news events have aroused the concern of all walks of life about the health of journalists, but these individual "sudden deaths" do not mean that journalists are short-lived. At least many old journalists in their fifties are still active in the front-line posts of news editing, and there are many famous old journalists, such as Dai Huang, who still write and talk for many years after retirement. These are good responses to reporters' short-lived words.

Looking back at the news, people can't help asking: What is the purpose of the so-called "nutrition and health seminar for journalists" jointly promoted by pharmaceutical companies and a news agency? I would like to remind you that journalists are not all simple-minded social "recorders", but also observers of social dynamics and supervisors of unhealthy phenomena. It is really a miscalculation to try to play business ideas on journalists through alarmism. At the same time, I also remind you that your health is as important as the health of society.

The original source of data, as early as 2000, Shanghai conducted a health survey on journalists from 10 media. The results show that the average age of the dead employees is only 45.7 years old, and the proportion of death from cancer is as high as 72.7%. The average age of hospitalization due to illness is 44.2 years old, and the highest proportion of diseases is cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. More than half of journalists are in a state of illness and sub-health. Xiao Dongsheng, secretary of the Secretariat of China Journalists Association, announced this news for the first time at the Fourth National Journalists' Tennis Competition at the end of 2000. Subsequently, the reporter magazine in Shanghai published the health survey in detail. Since then, there has been a statistic that the average age of dead journalists is only 45.7 years old, which has appeared in different domestic media many times in the form of quotations.

A common-sense problem is that the average age of a 45.7-year-old journalist who died is by no means the average life expectancy of a journalist, which are completely two concepts; At the same time, it is also a question whether the full-time employees of Shanghai 10 media can represent all journalists in China. It is obviously a bad concept to use the average age of the death toll of some media in a city as the life expectancy index of people in the same industry in China. At the same time, the experts who published this data did not explain the source of the data or the limitations of this survey, which obviously violated the basic medical ethics.

During this year's Olympic Games, Zheng Li, a reporter from Beijing TV Station, died suddenly while filming in Athens, Yuri Bikov, a famous Russian sports photographer, died suddenly in Athens, and a senior editor of Shenyang Ball newspaper died suddenly while watching the Olympic Games. These news events have aroused the concern of all walks of life about the health of journalists, but these individual "sudden deaths" do not mean that journalists are short-lived. At least many old journalists in their fifties are still active in the front-line posts of news editing, and there are many famous old journalists, such as Dai Huang, who still write and talk for many years after retirement. These are good responses to reporters' short-lived words.

Looking back at the news, people can't help asking: What is the purpose of the so-called "nutrition and health seminar for journalists" jointly promoted by pharmaceutical companies and a news agency? I would like to remind you that journalists are not all simple-minded social "recorders", but also observers of social dynamics and supervisors of unhealthy phenomena. It is really a miscalculation to try to play business ideas on journalists through alarmism. At the same time, I also remind you that your health is as important as the health of society.

The original source of data, as early as 2000, Shanghai conducted a health survey on journalists from 10 media. The results show that the average age of the dead employees is only 45.7 years old, and the proportion of death from cancer is as high as 72.7%. The average age of hospitalization due to illness is 44.2 years old, and the highest proportion of diseases is cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. More than half of journalists are in a state of illness and sub-health. Xiao Dongsheng, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Journalists Association, announced the news at the Fourth National Journalists' Tennis Competition at the end of 2000. Subsequently, the reporter magazine in Shanghai published the health survey in detail. Since then, there has been a statistic that the average age of dead journalists is only 45.7 years old, which has appeared in different domestic media many times in the form of quotations.

A common-sense problem is that the average age of a 45.7-year-old journalist who died is by no means the average life expectancy of a journalist, which are completely two concepts; At the same time, it is also a question whether the full-time employees of Shanghai 10 media can represent all journalists in China. It is obviously a bad concept to use the average age of the death toll of some media in a city as the life expectancy index of people in the same industry in China. At the same time, the experts who published this data did not explain the source of the data or the limitations of this survey, which obviously violated the basic medical ethics.

During this year's Olympic Games, Zheng Li, a reporter from Beijing TV Station, died suddenly while filming in Athens, Yuri Bikov, a famous Russian sports photographer, died suddenly in Athens, and a senior editor of Shenyang Ball newspaper died suddenly while watching the Olympic Games. These news events have aroused the concern of all walks of life about the health of journalists, but these individual "sudden deaths" do not mean that journalists are short-lived. At least many old journalists in their fifties are still active in the front-line posts of news editing, and there are many famous old journalists, such as Dai Huang, who still write and talk for many years after retirement. These are good responses to reporters' short-lived words.

Looking back at the news, people can't help asking: What is the purpose of the so-called "nutrition and health seminar for journalists" jointly promoted by pharmaceutical companies and a news agency? I would like to remind you that journalists are not all simple-minded social "recorders", but also observers of social dynamics and supervisors of unhealthy phenomena. It is really a miscalculation to try to play business ideas on journalists through alarmism. At the same time, I also remind you that your health is as important as the health of society.

Excerpted from China Youth Daily.