With the development of new media technology and the industrial operation of medium, news media ask for more rights of works for hire. Accordingly, the revised draft of copyright law provides that the news works for hire is a special type, which reverses the rights distribution between media and reporter, but also brings a new set of problems.This paper argues that, the parties’ autonomy should be respected firstly. In the absence of agreement, the “exclusive right to use” can basically meet the rights requirement of media, so the news works for hire should be treated as a general type in the arbitrary norm. Meanwhile, the collective negotiation and judicial rectification mechanism should be established to prevent the convention imbalance.