ABSTRACT
Translated news is a genre of news that, like any other news genre, is a product of the news-making process. Pre-editing denotes selecting and editing texts from various sources and channels in its raw form. News selectors and page editors work together to decide the content of each page and the amount of work required for the translation process. Source news selectors have heavy responsibilities in Cankao Xiaoxi (CKXX). The selector will always choose the articles that editors have ordered first. Most news selectors are bi/multilingual experts who have had translation experience in CKXX and get transferred to the news selection team. CKXX has developed its own program to assist news selection. CKXX prides itself as being “the newspaper of thousands of newspapers” because it selects from various non-Chinese media and the media in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. CKXX can provide more detailed descriptions, while others may only briefly report something.
