香港、上海,我国新闻事业最发达的两个沿海城市,一百多年前也是近代新闻事业首先萌芽、繁荣的地方。比较研究这两个城市当时的报刊情况,对于探索我国新闻事业的发展规律不无益处。一、近代新闻事业的形成当在19世纪40—70年代 Hong Kong, Shanghai and the two most developed coastal cities in China’s journalism were also the places where news and journalism first sprouted and prospered more than 100 years ago. A comparative study of the status of newspapers and periodicals in the two cities at that time would be of no use in exploring the laws governing the development of journalism in our country. First, the formation of modern journalism when the 1940s and 1970s