I Am A Researcher On The Freedom Of Journalism (1912-1949)

As one of the four big newspapermen of the Republic of China,and also as a private newspapermen, Cheng Shewo involved in the news and political activities as the journalist,educator, and social leader in his 77 years of news career. Due to the change of social environment, he constantly shuttled in many places, such as Beijing,Nanjing,Shanghai,Chongqing,Hong Kong and Taiwan,to go in for the news activities. He experiences the period of the northern warlords, the national government, and the press ban of Taiwan,.This article emphatically combs Cheng Shewo's news activities from the time he into the newspaper to left China in 1949,systemize his core value of the press freedom from the aspect of news media, journalists and news environment and conclude the reason from two aspects of growth, education, and its own newspaper practice. At the same time,the pursuit of the freedom of the press in Hong Kong and Taiwan and objective evaluation of his news practice will as the supplement to enrich his thought about the press freedom.Of Cheng Shewo private newspaperman's identity,we can find the pursuit and yearning of the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. He is not a typical,complete liberals, he's thought influenced by a lot of parties. In addition to the growth of his thoughts, the family, the social environment, and the intellectuals in his complicated relationships are all influence his thoughts. Although in the practice of the free newspaper,he had some actions do not correspond with his words,such as wandered between politician and independent newspaper, received some allowance of government, he still reflects the character of a newspaperman on the aspect of the freedom of speech and the independence of the newspaper. His freedom of the press thought contains the "world" spirit of the anarchism, the independent ideas of liberalism, and also can see the public awareness of the socialism. But the pursuit of the freedom of the speech and the freedom of the press are contained and has been unchanged. As a private newspapers who haven't long term overseas experience studying, he's behavior insisted to the freedom of the press will lead the way for other private newspapermen.