定位经济服务商界十九世纪末,上海的(新闻报)开创了一条独特的办报路线,因沪地人口以从事工商者为最多,所以办报首先适应工商界的需要。这一决策确有独到之处,对近代上海报业的发展影响深远。那时上海已是一个典型的移民社会,它既是开放性的口岸城市,也是中国最大的信息文化交流中心。人们野心勃勃,不再闭目塞听,孤陋寡闻,急切地渴望信息为自己带来机会,或者填塞身在异乡寂寞的心灵。1890年以前,上海中文报比较少,一般市民主要是从《申报》、《字林新报》获取外界信息,甚至就用“申报纸”代替“报纸”的概念。但进入九十年代以后,《申报》独步 Positioning Economic Services and Business In the late nineteenth century, the Shanghai News (News) created a unique line for handling newspapers. Since Shanghai’s population is dominated by business people, the newspaper first adapted to the needs of the business community. This decision is indeed unique and has a far-reaching impact on the development of modern Shanghai’s newspaper industry. At that time, Shanghai was already a typical immigrant society. It was both an open port city and China’s largest information and cultural exchange center. People are ambitious, cease to obsessive, ignorant, anxiously eager for information to bring opportunities for themselves, or stuffed in the lonely heart of a foreign land. Before 1890, the Chinese language newspapers in Shanghai were relatively small. The general public mainly obtained the external information from the “Declaration” and “Xinlin Linzi” or even replaced the notion of “newspaper” with “Shenbao”. However, after entering the nineties, “declaration” alone