Symposium on Big Data and Media Innovation focused  on several basic problems between big data and the innovative practice of journalism and communication,   including:a) the connotation of Big Data, big data analytics and big data news; b)the practical application of Big Data in the ?eld of news      reports: taking the Spring Rush reports as an example; c)    the discussion about big data analysis, like the contradictions between big data  and news,     information hegemony or information communist,   and the opening of big data sources; d)and the future of  the research and development of    big data.