li hongbing: the ripples they create tomorrow will reach a wider world
2024-09-21
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17 fudan freshmen who just passed the college entrance examination were gently bumped in the waist by a 95-year-old evening newspaper. a girl who was thinking about "what to eat for lunch today" before the exhibition thought about something else after the exhibition: the young "zhao chaogou" was once a young man like us, from being confused about the future to step by step determining the direction - this direction is what we have chosen at this moment: news.
yes. in the turbulent omni-media era, these 17 children, either firmly or ignorantly, chose to become journalists in the future, and thus became students of the first "wangdao journalism excellence class" of the school of journalism at fudan university. chen wangdao, the former director of the department of journalism at fudan university, said earnestly, "promote the truth, reform society, study hard and practice hard." the goal of this class is to cultivate "great journalists" like mr. zhao chaogou who have journalistic ideals, influence and leadership, who are brave and knowledgeable, rush to the scene, seize every opportunity to obtain first-hand information, and issue true reports like "yan'an january" that are deafening and set things right.
this year, coinciding with the 95th anniversary of the founding of xinmin evening news, xinmin evening news and china modern and contemporary press and publication museum jointly organized the "lin fang never grows old - zhao chaogou's notes and the 80th anniversary of the publication of "yan'an january" exhibition", which opened on september 9. the next day, at the invitation of li tianyang, a junior fellow of the xinmin evening news and a fellow student of the fudan journalism department, we visited the "lin fang never grows old" exhibition with the students of the wangdao class. the yellowed photos, ancient letters and faded old newspapers made the students of the wangdao class feel ripples in their hearts. these ripples came from a 95-year-old newspaper and an old journalist who was 114 years old after his death. they came from a news work that broke through the news blockade in the kuomintang-controlled areas at that time and reported yan'an and the communist party of china in a rare series of truthful reports. at a simulated "press conference" after the exhibition, curator li tianyang praised the students who asked questions enthusiastically and said, "the questions are all very good, and they will definitely become great journalists!"
this day was also teachers' day. 17 children got to know a newspaper with character and a senior with style, completing a vivid "teacher recognition" ceremony.
coincidentally, another new media in this city, the paper, just celebrated its tenth birthday. they say that voices will hear voices, and ripples will create ripples. it is true. on this day, the voices of chen wanglao and zhao chaolao were heard by 17 young future journalists, and the ripples they will create tomorrow, no matter what platform they use, may also reach and influence the larger world in the future.
as long as news is not dead, the tradition will not be cut off.
(the author is a distinguished professor at fudan university and project director of the “wang dao class”)
