Cheng Chen-ming, who has written 12 mass communications textbooks and taught nearly 10,000 journalists, remarks that it took five years to finish this book but more than 40 years to prepare for it. He has a broad and long-term understanding of the persons described in the book. In order to gather information, he made more than 10 trips back and forth across the Taiwan Strait.
期待報人研究先後在國內十二所傳播科系教書，培育近萬名新聞尖兵的鄭貞銘表示，這套書費時五年書寫完成，但籌備階段卻達四十年之久，他對書中的人物都有長期且廣泛的瞭解，為了蒐集資料，海峽兩岸跑了十多次。