抗日战争爆发前,陆定一主编过《中国青年》和《红星报》,1942年4月开始负责编辑《解放日报》的《学习》副刊,同年8月担任《解放日报》总编辑。对于如何办好党报,陆定一做过系统的理论思考并发表了相关文章和讲话。其中最著名的是《我们对于新闻学的基本观点》,文中提出了“新闻 Before the outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan, Lu Dingyi edited “China Youth” and “Red Star”, and in April 1942 he began to edit the “Supplement to Studies” of “Jiefang Daily”. In August of the same year, he served as editor-in-chief of “Jiefang Daily”. For how to handle the party newspaper, Lu Dingyi has done systematic theoretical thinking and published relevant articles and speeches. One of the most famous is “our basic point of view of journalism,” the paper proposed "news