儘管新聞工作者與新聞學者過去一向辯稱「新聞中都是事實，也只 有事實，沒有他物」，新聞報導無可避免的是新聞工作者個人及組織對 這些事實的「轉換」或「再現」，再經使用大眾所熟悉的符號或語言描 繪而成。新聞内容所涵蓋者固是事實，但這些事實經由轉換或再現後卻 已是「加工」後的產品，因而無可避免地加入了描繪真實時的直覺與感 性，進而摻入了審美價值與創作表現。 本研究的重要性，即在於使用與傳統新聞學研究不同之觀點，嘗試 從美學角度觀察新聞傳播活動，重新討論新聞建構已知世界的新模式。 本研究首先延續過去美學討論的核心議題，試析「新聞可否寫得與詩一 樣的美」。雖然新聞領域過去執著於新聞報導的真實反映功能，但本研究嘗試脫此一桎措，挑戰「新聞報導只有事實j此一前提，改從新聞 寫作與採訪過程俱都與藝術創作有所重疊之角度，強調新聞表現當以美 學概念加以觀察。 總結來說，本研究認為所謂的「新聞美學」，即在於指稱新聞報導 除提供社會真實之呈現外，尚應協助讀者（或閱聽眾）獲取精神上的感 動與滿足，從而超越心靈，培養有意義的人生。在技巧上，新聞美學旨 在提供辨識、表達、創造、以及互動所需的感覺，也就是呈現「一系列 作品最佳共同性質的抽象化，以及具體地呈現這些性質的形象產物（如新聞影片）」。

It has been a common proposition that all the news reports must contain “facts, the facts, all facts, nothing but the facts.” But since these stories are written in a language that is familiar by both the readers and news professionals, they are inevitably “manufactured” and therefore not objectified nor context-freed but rather involved with personal feelings, perceptions, along with aesthetic values. The purpose, and importance, of this paper is therefore located in its effort to examine the value of news from the perspective of aesthetics, an attempt rarely tried by previous researchers either in journalism or in mass communication. We begin our paper by briefly tracing the history of aesthetics, and discussed a central issue: Whether or not a news story can be written as beautiful as a poem. We surely admit and accept the past mythology that the profession of journalism still maintains a major function to reflect the social reality in its daily task, but we wonder whether this has to be sacrificed by the rejection of aesthetic ideas. We then presented a number of argumentations, in which the key aesthetic concepts were drawn with a purpose to check with their fitness to the journalistic discussion, including “passion,” “clearness,” and “linkage to the context.” We hope our discussion would show that aesthetic values are not only necessary but also important to the profession of journalism, and further exploration of other similar aesthetic concepts would help future development of our discipline.