报纸的信访工作,既是信访工作,又是新闻工作。报纸的信访工作部门和编辑部其他部门一样,是新闻机关的一部分。报社的信访工作是运用新闻工具来进行的,和一般信访部门的工作不一样。这是报纸信访工作的基本特点。不把报纸的信访工作看成新闻工作的一部分,这是长期存在、至今没有很好解决的问题。从配备干部开始,有的人就认为干这一行不必懂得新闻业务,而不少做这项工作的同志,也往往不把它当作新闻工作来做。人们把 The petition work of the newspaper is not only a petition work, but also a journalistic work. Like the rest of the editorial department, the newspaper’s petition work department is part of the news agency. Newspaper petition work is the use of news tools to carry out, and the work of the general petitioning department is not the same. This is a basic feature of newspaper letters and visits. It is a long-standing issue that has not been properly solved so far. It is not a matter of treating the newspaper’s petition as part of a journalistic work. Since the beginning of the appointment of cadres, some people think that it is not necessary for them to know the news business in order to do this work. Many of the comrades doing this work often do not regard it as a press work. People put it