Learning objectives of this chapter
1. Master the characteristics and rules of reporters' questions.
2. Learn to comprehensively use different questioning methods and strategies.
3. Understand the particularity and strategy of the questions in the press conference. Suggested self-study hours
10 class hours. [The characteristics and rules of reporters' questioning, 2 class hours; the content and sequence of questioning, 2 class hours; the strategy of questioning, 3.5 class hours; the questioning in the press conference, 2.5 class hours.]
Questioning is a key link in the news interview, an important factor that determines the success or failure of the reporter's interview, and an important way for the reporter to obtain the news facts and excavate the news value.
In his book How to Be a Good Journalist, Jack Hayden, an American journalist, said: "About 90% of the news is partly or completely interviewed - that is, based on asking questions to people." This shows the importance of asking questions in news interviews.
Asking questions is an important basic skill of journalists and the main method for journalists to obtain news facts. When to ask questions, what kind of questions to ask, and how to ask questions, is a science, and is also the way to win the reporter's interview. American scholars Cheryl Gibbs and Tom Wachow emphasized in the book "News Gathering and Writing Tutorial: How to Dig a Complete Story" that "nothing can shape a report better than the questions asked by reporters, and nothing can distinguish experienced reporters from novices more than whether they can skillfully ask the right questions at the right time."
Section I Characteristics and laws of reporters' questions
"When you ask a question, it's like throwing a stone. You sit quietly on the top of the hill and listen to the echo. The stone rolls away and then goes down." British novelist Robert Stevenson described the question during the interview.