Facing the tremendous challenges due to the changing technological, economic and cultural realities, journalism scholars and experts often invoke the term “crisis” to describe the current situation of journalism in this era, which constitutes the “journalistic crisis discourses”. Through the theoretical views of critical media discourse and metajournalistic discourse, this article analyzes the different interpretations of the causes, results and responses of journalistic crisis, and clarifes them into three discourses of journalistic crisis: business crisis of journalism; structural crisis and conceptual crisis. After elaborating and comparing the similarities and differences of the three journalistic discourses, this article further discusses that how can the contemporary journalistic studies proceed from the current “crisis”, construct the consensus of the future and promote the next researches in journalistic feld.