Liang Qichao's Journalism Thought

Liang Qichao is a famous politician and outstanding scholar in the late Qing dynasty. His political activities and academic activities are closely linked with newspapers activities together. The newspaper he founded and supported is of seventeen kinds, which are about fourteen million words. He's newspaper activities not only play a huge role in political storm in the late Qing Dynasty, but also provide a useful experience for the development of modern journalism in China. His theory of journalism makes an enormous impact on the press world in that age.In the process of long-term newspapers, Liang Qichao accessed to some western bourgeois theory of running newspapers constantly. After a period of exploration and practice and summary, he gradually put forward his own unique newspapers theory and news thought. In short, it basically of the following content:Newspapers mission view, News function view, News freedom view, Consensus view, Party newspaper theory, Publicity strategy and News history view, which involves in the contemporary journalism theories in various fields, and becomes a complete theoretical system peremptorily. Owing to historical conditions and class limitations, with the department of his personal ideological understanding, some certain feudal content and unreasonable factors, even if some conflicting thoughts, still exist in his news ideology. According to the carding of his news activities, and the summary of his news thought, this article analysis the deficiencies in his news thought. Then it concludes two aspects, which analyzes the internal and external reasons of the formation of his limitations. It also sums up the impacts of his news thoughts on the China's modern journalism and news activities later.