记者节对于新闻社群是一个仪式性和周期性的“热点时刻”。本文以不同类型的 十二份报纸在2000-2014年间的记者节话语作为研究对象,探究新闻界如何将“历史” 整合到关乎“当下”的专业话语之中。与“关键事件”或纪念场景不同,记者节的“记 忆工作”在更一般的意义上折射出新闻界深层的历史意识与集体记忆。我们发现,新闻 界借助“常识知识”将自身的处境“历史化”,它们建构出记者节的“开端”神话,从 “断裂”的历史中清理出“延续的”传统,并重塑“角色模范”的当代意义。

The Journalists’ Day is a ritualized and routine “hot moment” for journalistic community. Using the Journalists’ Day discourse in twelve newspapers of different types during 2000 and 2014 as the object of study, this paper examines how Chinese journalists incorporate “the past” into their discourse about “the present.” Comparing with those “critical incidents” or commemorative occasions, the “memory work” on the Journalists’ Day projects the profession’s deep-seated historical consciousness and collective memory in a more general sense. We contend that journalists rely on common knowledge to situate themselves in a historical context. In this process, they create a “beginning” myth for the holiday, build a “continuous” tradition from the historical “ruptures,” and rearticulate the contemporary relevance and implications of “role models.”