本文对中国新闻改革动力机制的研究范式之一“政经博弈说”进行了理论考察，梳理了国家与市场关系的研究传统，及其伴随中国新闻改革实践的理论继承和发展两个方面。继承主要体现在以“国家”为分析中心的自由派和以“市场”为分析中心的新左派对于国家与市场非此即彼的分析立场之上；随后的发展派认为国家与市场可以结合成为 “国家-市场”复合体，并对市场的作用性质持有不同观点，着力于拓展市场的中性及双性机制。此外，新闻专业主义也被认为是独立于国家和市场而作用于中国新闻业的第三股拉力。对于未来新闻改革的走向，互联网技术的影响、国家力量的分化、用户力量的中心化等新因素值得关注，这些对“政经博弈说”带来了理论挑战。

Politics and economy game theory is one of the paradigms that explain why China’s journalism reform happens. There are two types of interpretations that focus on the “state-market” under this paradigm. Succession is mainly reflected on the position that nation and market are either-or things, where liberals focus on the state and the new leftists focus on the market; subsequent developmental scholars think state and market can be integrated with each other as a state-market complex and they hold different opinions on the function and property of the market. Besides, journalism professionalism is also regarded as the third force that acts on journalism in China. The development of the Internet technology and the state divergence will also challenge the politics and economy game theory in the future.