Journalistic Roles among Chinese-language Press Journalists in China and Malaysia

This comparative study examines the perspectives of journalistic roles among journalists for Chinese-language press in China and in Malaysia. Based on surveys of 230 Chinese journalists in Beijing and 228 Malaysian journalists in West Malaysia, this study concludes that both groups of respondents shared views on the following journalistic roles namely, dissemination, interpretive, adversarial and populist, as important functions in their practice.