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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

People's Daily Journalist Ding Gang<br />

Lectured at <strong>PKU</strong><br />

By Situ Yu<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2004—03—10<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=78982420<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong>, Beijing, Mar 10th, 2004: Ding Gang, senior journalist in the international<br />

department <strong>of</strong> People‘s daily, came to lecture at School <strong>of</strong> Journalism and<br />

Communication, <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> this afternoon. Centering on his career<br />

experience abroad, he expressed his views on being a qualified international news<br />

reporter.<br />

In addition to fluent foreign language and a good knowledge <strong>of</strong> the foreign country,<br />

always being full <strong>of</strong> curiosity is a key factor for an international news reporter, said<br />

Mr. Ding. A qualified journalist has to be Jack <strong>of</strong> all trades, and to achieve this, a<br />

journalist must develop the habit <strong>of</strong> accumulating a wide range <strong>of</strong> knowledge in daily<br />

work. Also, thinking diligently can enable journalists to report from better<br />

perspectives. To make his words more persuasive and vivid, he took his famous<br />

reports on the 9.11 case and the hotly-discussed medical case <strong>of</strong> transplanting<br />

heads for example. He added that a journalist is not an instructor and should stand in<br />

the readers‘ shoes to write news.<br />

The present students were interested in his experience abroad and asked many<br />

correlated questions. When asked whether a journalist‘s reports will be influenced<br />

the foreign country‘s culture and ideology during his staying abroad, Ding admitted<br />

that it is to some degree, true but also emphasized the importance to put his native<br />

country‘s benefits on the considerable position. He mentioned the imbalance culture<br />

exchange between our country and other countries that he noted in his staying<br />

abroad.<br />

Ding worked as a resident correspondent in Belgium, Sweden and the United<br />

Nations successively after graduation from the department <strong>of</strong> journalism in Social<br />

Academy. He had successfully reported many international issues and won the first<br />

place in dispatches <strong>of</strong> the fourth China International <strong>News</strong> Award.<br />

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