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"What is the vegetable that Shanghai people buy the most in spring? It's not Chinese toon, broad bean kernels, shepherd's purse, or grass head, but mung bean sprouts." On August 19th, "Visualized News: Innovation and Outlook in Digital News Production" was first released at the Shanghai Book Fair. One of the editors of the new book, Professor Lu Ye from the School of Journalism at Fudan University, shared a case included in the book with readers. "Shanghai Spring Vegetable Illustrated Book: The Most Popular One is Unexpectedly Ordinary." Obtained food purchasing data from Shanghai residents on the "Meituan Maicai" platform, and used hand drawn comics combined with data graphs to draw a spring vegetable map with regional folk characteristics. This is a data news practice in Jiefang Daily · Shangkan News.
Off stage, Zhang Xiaoming, a post-95s reader engaged in new media work, sat down early and said, "I saw the introduction of this event at the venue and was very interested. I hope to hear interesting news sharing on the forefront of the news industry."
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"Data will tell new stories beyond traditional interviews and texts." Lu Ye's report is titled "How to 'do news' in the digital age", and "Is the news and communication profession worth reading? It is a hot topic. I want to use this title to illustrate two points. In my opinion, this profession has never been so popular. It is difficult to make you' wealthy '. It may not be prepared for everyone, but there are always some people who enjoy content production. I strongly disagree with the view that nothing can be learned in this profession. Even in the past without the support of new technologies, writing was a high threshold job, and now with more technological means, writing is still a high threshold job." New technological barriers have been added. "
"In recent years, the traditional news industry has been constantly impacted by new technical means and new ways of communication. Mobile Internet and social media have developed rapidly, and now there are artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big language models. How can the traditional news industry represented by mainstream newspapers cope with these changes? How can new technologies be used for integration and innovation?" Xu Beibei, another editor in chief of the new book and deputy editor in chief of Jiefang Daily, introduced that in the context of the great change of media integration and transformation, Jiefang Daily has carried out business exploration and innovation in short videos, data news, interactive news and other digital news practice fields in recent years. Visual News: Innovation and Prospect of Digital News Production was created by Fudan Project Team and Jiefang Daily Data News Center. The team jointly carried out relevant research, literature sorting and case collection, which is the first stage cooperation result of the research group of the major project "Urban mass media behavior and geographical space in the digital mobile era: based on cross data platform and information visualization" of the Jiefang Daily Data News Center and Fudan University Information and Communication Research Center, the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. "This is the starting point for news organizations and universities to collaborate on the transformation of digital news production in the new technology era. In the future, we will further explore the reconstruction of the underlying logic of digital news editorial departments by new technologies, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence, remote sensing technology, open source data, visual surveys, and other technologies in digital news production. This will provide more cutting-edge thinking from the industry and academia for peers and university students who are interested in engaging in digital news production."
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It is reported that "Visual News: Innovation and Foresight of Digital News Production" has combed the local experience of visual news in the digital mobile era for the first time in a complete and systematic way, and selected typical cases to carry out detailed analysis with four topics - Topic 1: Visual report of COVID-19 real-time tracking; Topic 2: Visual News on the Return of the Century of the Founding of the Communist Party of China to the Historical Scene; Topic 3: Visual interactive games expanding the boundaries of digital news production; Topic 4: Visualization of Traditional Paper Media in the Era of Technological Integration. In the development of specific cases, there was a thorough discussion on the use of structured and unstructured data for different categories of visual news works, the adaptation of H5 on mobile devices, and the integration of new visual technologies such as AR and VR in short videos. At the same time, this book takes "virtual navigable space of programmable world" as the core theoretical concept, and governs the innovative practice in the field of visual news. In the text, it not only pays attention to visual display, but each case also provides an interface for readers to directly access the Internet world through hyperlinks and two-dimensional codes.
"This book is a collaboration between two major news and communication fields, combining news theory and practice. It has both theoretical innovation and depth, as well as rich experience in visual news creation and first-hand materials. From theory to case studies, from local China to the world experience, from large editions to interactive games, it presents excellent visual news works with different theories, categories, and technical support. It is a heavyweight work that the field of news and communication looks forward to." Yan Feng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Fudan University Press, said that news and communication is an important social science book section of Fudan University Press. "We look forward to collaborating with Liberation Daily and Fudan University School of Journalism again to continue exploring and presenting the development achievements of journalism." To contribute to the development of Chinese journalism. "
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