The difference between follow-up report and in-depth report

The so-called follow-up report, as its name implies, is to continuously follow up a news event in a relatively short period of time and report the latest progress of the situation every day or almost every day. Characterized in that:

-timeliness. That is, breaking news events or events that are not breaking news but are newly disclosed by news media.

-Importance. Generally speaking, this is an event that has attracted wide attention.

-continuity. The disclosure of news features of the event will not be completed at one time. On the basis of the news events reported for the first time, new news events or little-known events behind the news appear constantly, one after another, with climaxes.

-readability. Because of its novelty, strangeness and importance, as well as the unpredictability of the event results, readers pay close attention to it and often become the topic of gossip.

Follow-up reporting refers to the use of public or non-public means to obtain information that the interviewee does not want to disclose and expose it. There are two main ways: one is public tracking, which is used by "Pa Palacci" (a photographer who pursues celebrities and takes photos of their private lives for a living) abroad; The other is non-public tracking, that is, hidden interviews. In order to obtain first-hand materials, journalists hide their identities, such as interviewing by candid camera. In 1990s, after being introduced into China, the follow-up report was adopted by many journalists and became more and more popular, especially in TV news commentary programs.

"The so-called in-depth reporting is to present news events in a context that can show real meaning around the practical problems of social development."

In-depth reporting works generally have certain characteristics such as timeliness, uniqueness of subject matter, readability (sense of hearing), mutual reference between concreteness and rationality.

In-depth reporting is a form of reporting that extensively tracks social issues, comprehensively and profoundly grasps the essence of things, deeply analyzes and fully expounds the complexity of things' development. Foreign journalism explains in-depth reporting in this way: "Use today's events to test yesterday's background, so as to tell the meaning of tomorrow." That is, in-depth reporting is a kind of three-dimensional reporting of things from the aspects of historical origin, causality, contradiction evolution, influence and development trend by means of comprehensive analysis, interpretation and prediction. It can be seen that in-depth reports are mostly used to report social hotspots, difficulties and new things.