记者是专门从事信息采集、编辑和发布的人员,记者依托专门的新闻机构进行信息传播活动,因此他们的角色是与新闻媒介机构的角色和功能定位息息相关的。此外,中国的新闻事业具有“事业性质、企业管理”的双重属性,党报传统下的中国新闻事业必然会与政治有密切的关系。本文拟从社会政治因素的背景下,从新闻媒介的角色和功能中导出记者的角色,对不同时期的较为突出的记者角色作了一个梳理,这些角色是:宣传者、参与者、营利者和观察者,且它们之间是一种并存、此长彼消的关系,不应割裂来看待。 The reporters are those who specialize in collecting, editing and publishing information. The reporters rely on specialized news agencies for information dissemination. Therefore, their role is closely linked to the role and function of the media organizations. In addition, China’s journalism has the dual nature of “business nature and enterprise management.” China’s journalism under the tradition of the party newspaper is bound to have close ties with politics. This article intends to derive the role of journalist from the role and function of news media under the background of social and political factors and to sort out the prominent journalists’ roles in different periods: advocate, participant, profit-making and Observers, and there is a co-existence between them. The relationship between each other should not be divided.