报业集团源于美国。早在1878年,爱德华·斯克列浦斯从克利夫兰出发,在美国的15个州收购了30多家报纸,组建了斯克列浦斯-麦克雷报团,至今依然屹立不倒。 今天,在美国、日本和西欧等许多新闻业高度发达的国家,往往一个国家的报业都掌握在为数极少的几家由大企业或大垄断财团控制的报团手上。以美国为例,70％的日报及更多的周报为大的报团股份公司所有,一城一报的现象极为普遍,拥有两家以上报纸的城 Newspaper Group from the United States. Back in 1878, Edward Scripps, starting from Cleveland, acquired more than 30 newspapers in 15 U.S. states and formed the Scripps-McClellan Mission, which still stands today. Today, in many highly developed journalistic countries, such as the United States, Japan and Western Europe, often the newspapers of one country are in the hands of a handful of newspapers controlled by large enterprises or monopolistic consortia. In the United States, for example, 70% of daily newspapers and more weekly newspapers are owned by large newspapers holding stock companies. The phenomenon of reporting newspapers one by one is extremely common. Cities with more than two newspapers