On January 14, Zhang Yu, a well-known host of CCTV, publicly stated that he had left CCTV and joined ByteDance.
Zhang Yu responded through his micro-headlines, saying that he joined ByteDance because he "got old and wanted to change his way of life" and "mainly participated in public welfare and social responsibility work" in the new company. Zhang Yu's micro-headline page shows that he is currently the vice president of ByteDance.
According to public information, Zhang Yu was born in November 1969, a native of Beijing, and entered the School of International Relations of Peking University in 1988, where he served as the head of the Peking University speech group, and won the champion of the National College Debate Competition and the champion of the National College Student Speech Competition.
In 1992, after graduation, Zhang Yu entered CCTV and participated in hosting many key news programs such as "Focus Interview", "Oriental Time and Space", "News 1+1", "Face to Face", "NewsWeekly", "24 Hours" and so on.
In 2008, Zhang Yu participated in many reports such as the fight against ice and snow disasters, the Wenchuan earthquake, and the Olympic Games. For more than three months after the Wenchuan earthquake, it was broadcast live for 6 hours a day. In one program, Zhang Yu burst into tears when he connected with the mother of Chen Hao, a 12-year-old boy who was seriously injured to save his companions, and the female reporters at the scene could not cry.
Zhang Yu live broadcast infographic
After the earthquake report, Zhang Yu hosted the Olympic live broadcast for more than a month, and the program he hosted won many national awards such as the "China Journalism Award".
At the beginning of 2010, Haiti caused a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale, when Haitian society was in chaos, aftershocks were continuous, and plague and malaria were erupting, Zhang Yu took the initiative to invite Miao to go to the interview, and broadcast more than a dozen episodes of the "Zhang Yu Haiti Observation" series of programs, showing "the most painful place in the world" with exclusive lenses.
After the 2011 Japan earthquake tsunami and nuclear accident, the aftershocks are still continuing, and the nuclear radiation danger has caused serious panic in Japan, at this time Zhang Yu rushed to Japan and went deep into the dangerous zone only more than 20 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant, showing the scene of the nuclear crisis to the Chinese audience; brought back more than ten in-depth reports "Japan Post-Disaster Observation", and conducted a number of live broadcast reports. During this period, he also suffered a strong aftershock of magnitude 7 in the epicenter of the earthquake, and immediately after the earthquake, he carried out live coverage.
So far, Zhang Yu has won major awards such as the National Outstanding Journalist, the Golden Microphone Host Award for Chinese Broadcasting Host, and the China Journalism Award.
"Political Affairs News" (WeChat ID: zsenews) Written by Xu Tengfei Intern Li Jingtong Proofreading Wei Zhuo