以《中国报学史》所使用的“交通”一词为中心，本文对戈公振的传播思想进行了探讨。认为它一方面源于中国本土观念，另一方面又吸收了卡尔·毕歇尔、藤原勘治等人的新闻学说。在此基础上，戈公振提出报刊是人类思想交通之媒介的观点，并据此分析中国新闻史上官报、民报和外报之间的传播关系。戈公振的传播论述，是传播概念中国化的最早尝试之一。

This paper discusses Ge Gongzhen’s communication ideas centered on “Jiaotong” which was used in his book Chinese Journalism History. It finds that his ideas were originated from Chinese culture and also absorbed the journalism ideas of Karl Bücher and Kanji Fujiwara. Based on that, Ge Gongzhen proposed that newspaper is the vehicle of communication and further analyzed relations among official newspaper, civil newspaper and foreign newspaper. He is one of the first people who tried to localize the concept of communication in China.