With the advent and spread of new communication technologies, the over-heated pursuit of timeliness or even speediness in news reporting has led to the result of Journalism of Assertion replacing Journalism of Verification as the dominant mode of news reporting. This article, based on the two dimensions of “News Production” and “Theories of Journalism”, analyzes the characteristics, performances and causes of Journalism of Assertion. The theoretical meaning of this new reporting model is the key point, which observes the new concept helps transform traditional news concepts to “conversation” and “knowledge”, proposes a way to understand anomie, so
that we can contemplate the “post-truth” model. Considering the social damage of Journalism of Assertion, this article acknowledges the contribution of the public’s news literacy to the development of information society.