“发现”对于新闻工作的意义，学界和业界都有论述。然而，以往的论述多附着于新闻敏感和采访业务的探讨之中。它能否成为贯穿整个新闻业务研究而又具独立性的一个学理范畴，学界和业界似乎还未曾进行系统的探讨。彭菊华教授所著《新闻发现学引论》，敏锐地捕捉到这一学术空白? The significance of “discovery” for journalism is discussed both in academia and industry. However, the previous expositions are mostly attached to the discussion of news-sensitive and interviewing business. Whether it can become an academic discipline that runs through the entire news business and yet has its own independence does not seem to have been systematically explored in the academia and the industry. Professor Peng Juhua, “Journalism Discovery Introduction”, keen to capture this academic gap?