新闻记者作为新闻事件的第一见证人和发布者,具有接近采访对象,深入采访现场,通过新闻报道影响新闻事件的能力。但是,这种能力往往会由于新闻记者的自身认知、思维、心理意识而发生变化,从而影响到新闻的报道。如何将这种因新闻记者个人原因而存在的可变因素降到最低,还原新闻事件的最真实状态,则需要新闻记者从职业道德上规范其个人行为。一、新闻记者职业道德缺失的现状及原因(一)新闻记者职业道德缺失的现状 As the first witness and publisher of a news event, journalists have the ability to approach the interviewees, conduct in-depth interviews with the scene and influence news events through news reports. However, this ability often changes due to journalists’ own cognition, thinking and psychological awareness, thus affecting the news coverage. How to minimize the variable factors of journalists for their personal reasons and to restore the true state of news events requires that journalists regulate their personal behaviors from the perspective of professional ethics. First, the journalists lack of professional ethics and the reasons for the status quo (a) journalists lack of professional ethics status quo