News Comics in Chinese Online Journalism

Section: Foreign Journalism

The article discusses a new phenomenon in the Chinese online journalism — the transformation of journalistic genre of information messages into a new genre — news comics. The convergent nature of news comics is based on the interaction of verbal and non-verbal components which ensures the integrity of the content and semantic structure. On example of the news comics on Russia published in a special online application “News cartoon” to the newspaper “China Daily” the author explores the specifics of the interaction of verbal and nonverbal components in a journalistic text as a tool for shaping the image of a foreign state.