When the"Global Village"Encounters"Big Event":A Call for a Kind of Contextualized Journalism

In the process of modernization of Chinese society,journalism serves as both the objective and the means of social development.To improve news coverage is to recognize and influence social change.Various problems exiting current news reporting reflect dramatic social changes.This paper attempts to reconstruct the concept of news in the context of contemporary China.Under the guidance of social theories transcending the binary of modernity and postmodernity, it reflects upon the concept of news from descriptive,historical and practical aspects.Based on the analysis, it proposes a journalistic practice that is transformative and helpful to the building of a harmonious society.This practice is titled Contextualized Journalism.