Research on constructive journalism and social development

　　Constructive Journalism, as a news philosophy and practice, is emerging within the domain of journalism, along with the development of new media in recent years. Far from the concept of traditional journalism, constructive journalism explores a rigorous reporting about responses to social problems for their available solutions applied to social governance, and the media more importantly dig into developing solutions as well as make joint efforts with the government to tackle many problems facing the society. Hence, this also will redefine the media values in the new media era.

　　This project includes three major parts:

　　I. Global Vision: The Global Development of Constructive Journalism

　　Focusing on the data and cases from Europe, America, Asia and other countries.

　　II. The mutual understanding of civilization: Practice of constructive journalism in China and Africa

　　1. Practice of constructive journalism in China

　　(1) Current situation and requirements: transformation and development of media and journalism

　　(2) Case Study: Constructive journalism practice on traditional media and new media

　　(3)Experience and problems

　　2. Practice of constructive journalism in Africa

　　(1) Current situation and requirements: transformation and development of media and journalism

　　(2) Case Study: Practice of constructive journalism on traditional media and new media (mainly in Kenya and South Africa）

　　(3) Experience and problems

　　III. Comparison and Reference

　　3.The roles and functions of constructive journalism in social development

　　Based on China-Africa media and the practice and theory on constructive journalism, we discuss the roles and functions of constructive journalism in the development of Chinese and African society from the aspects of social governance, cultural inheritance and national image construction, and then we put forward some thoughts and suggestions on the development of Chinese and African media, information exchange and cultural construction in the new media and social environment.