VOA常速英语2014--互联网技术为未来记者提供学习新途径

 

Internet, Technology Offer New Tools for Journalists 互联网技术为未来记者提供学习新途径

LOS ANGELES—

The Internet and rapidly evolving technology is quickly changing how people receive news and how journalists deliver it.  There are now more ways to tell a story than ever before. One school in Los Angeles is teaching the next generation of journalists with the help of a state-of-the-art newsroom. 

When Faith Miller¹ wanted to study journalism² in college she has never expected this.

起初费斯·米勒想要在大学里就读新闻专业时候她从来没有这样的预期。

“I did not expect that in school I would be reporting on real stories and I did not know how much work goes into it.”

“我没有想到,在学校我会报道真实发生的故事,而且我不知道有这么多需要掌握。”

Unlike their counterparts of past generations, students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism learn to deliver news across all platforms, including television, radio and the Web. And that's not all, said Willow³ Bay, director of the School of Journalism.

与过去同行们不同的是,南加州大学安那伯格新闻学院的学生们需要掌握包括电视、广播以及网络在内的所有跨平台新闻报道。而且新闻学院主任威洛·拜耳表示这还不是全部。

“Today we expect journalists to be able to use all sorts of technological⁴ tools to research stories, to vet⁵ that research, to analyze⁶ that research. We expect them to be fluid in multimedia⁷ storytelling skills. We expect them increasingly to be their own marketing⁸ and distribution arms, to get their stories in front of audiences and to spread those stories as far as they can.”

“现如今我们希望记者能够使用各种技术工具对新闻事件进行研究,深度挖掘及分析。我们期望他们在使用多媒体讲故事的技巧上运用自如。我们期望他们愈加拓宽自己的市场及制作,让他们的故事出现在观众面前,并且尽他们所能让新闻事件尽可能远的传播。”

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They learn all those skills in a brand new media center, built like a modern newsroom. There is a circular assignments desk in the middle of the center, with television monitors overhead broadcasting on different channels.

他们在就像是现代新闻编辑室的一个全新媒体中心学习这些技能。在中间有一个圆形的采访桌,而头顶的电视监视器则通过不同的频道进行直播。

More than 90 workstations are spread out around the room where student journalists who work on TV, radio and the Web collaborate⁹ side-by-side.

房间内分布着超过90个工作站，学生记者们在这里可以通过并行的电视,广播和网络工作。

Digital Journalism Professor Robert Hernandez said future journalists must also be tech-savvy¹⁰, and that meant learning basic computer programing languages.

数字新闻学教授罗伯特·埃尔南德斯表示这些未来的记者还必须精通各种技术,这意味着要掌握基本的计算机编程语言。

“They need to know how the Web works and be able to tinker with it.”

“他们需要知道网络如何工作,而且有需要可以进行工作。”

Hernandez demonstrated some of the modern tools Web reporters could use to tell stories in a different way.

埃尔南德斯演示了网络记者可以使用的一些现代工具以截然不同的方式讲故事。

“You can do a 360 panorama¹¹ through your phone. We can talk about what a tornado¹² looks like, how it rips trees out of the ground. Through their phone there's an app that stitches them together.”

“你可以通过自己的手机实现360度的全景。我们可以谈论龙卷风的样子,如何将地上的树木连根拔起。通过手机应用将它们整合在一起。”

Students can also take a class that experiments with Google Glass, a device that connects to the Internet and records video and audio.

学生还可以戴上谷歌眼镜经历这一切,这是一种连接到互联网记录视频和音频的设备。

Will Federman, a print and digital journalism student, “I think we're entering a market now where if you don't have kind of a wide range of skills and have a little bit of knowledge on everything, you're probably going to have a difficult time finding a job.”

印刷及数字新闻系学生威尔·菲德曼说道:“我认为我们正在进入一个市场,如果你没有广泛的技能和对所有事情都有一点点的知识,你可能会很难找到一份工作。”

The goal is not just to prepare students for the real world but to also make them savvy enough to adapt quickly to changing technology.

而且目标不仅仅是让学生们做好面对真实世界的准备,而且也让他们足够精明的适应迅速变化的技术。

With new technology comes new ethical¹³ questions, however, and future journalists should tread carefully, according to the media center's executive director, Serena Cha.

媒体中心执行董事瑟林娜·查表示新技术会带来新的伦理问题,然而,未来的记者应该小心行事。

"In the journalism arena¹⁴ we've got to consider carefully. How do we teach students to use the tools responsibly? Yes, new technology often raises new questions because you're able to manipulate reality even more than before.”

“在新闻领域我们要谨慎行事。我们如何教学生通过负责任的方式使用工具?是的,新技术经常引发新的问题,因为你能够比以前更多的操纵现实。”

Faculty¹⁵ members said at the core of all this technology, students still needed to learn traditional journalism: how to write and tell a compelling story that is accurate, fair and balanced.

教员表示这一切技术的核心仍然是学生需要学习传统的新闻报道:如何写作,讲述一个令人信服，准确,公平的故事。

1 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

2 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

3 willow   

n.柳树

参考例句：

• The river was sparsely lined with willow trees.河边疏疏落落有几棵柳树。
• The willow's shadow falls on the lake.垂柳的影子倒映在湖面上。

4 technological   

adj.技术的；工艺的

参考例句：

• A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
• Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。

5 vet   

n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查

参考例句：

• I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
• Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。

6 analyze   

vt.分析，解析 (=analyse)

参考例句：

• We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
• The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。

7 multimedia   

adj.多种手段的，多媒体的；n.多媒体

参考例句：

• Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
• Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题，从而引发了许多有益的讨论。

8 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

9 collaborate   

vi.协作，合作；协调

参考例句：

• The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
• I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。

10 savvy   

v.知道，了解；n.理解能力，机智，悟性；adj.有见识的，懂实际知识的，通情达理的

参考例句：

• She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
• Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？

11 panorama   

n.全景，全景画，全景摄影，全景照片[装置]

参考例句：

• A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。
• A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。

12 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

13 ethical   

adj.伦理的，道德的，合乎道德的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
• It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。

14 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

15 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。