Journalists appear because of the need of news communication, accompanied by the emergence of newspapers. If you want to find out the origin of journalists, you should contact the emergence of newspapers to study them. The earliest newspaper in China was Di Bao in Tang Dynasty, which was also the embryonic form of feudal official newspaper. Journalists probably originated at this time. Those who run Dibao-officials working in the central government and local officials in the Beijing office-are up-and-coming journalists. The reason is that their work-collecting, publishing and transmitting news information-is actually the work of professional journalists later. It can be seen that the origin of journalists should not be later than the mid-Tang Dynasty, that is, the 8th century.