VOA常速英语2014--互联网技术为未来记者提供学习新途径（在线收听）

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 Miller wanted to study journalism 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 Willow 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 technological tools to research stories, to vet that research, to analyze that research. We expect them to be fluid in multimedia storytelling skills. We expect them increasingly to be their own marketing 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 collaborate 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-savvy, 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 panorama through your phone. We can talk about what a tornado 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 ethical 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 arena 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。”

Faculty 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。