Tsai Yuan-pei, who brought the study of journalism to Peking University, is the first person covered. He organized the "Peking University Journalism Research Society," published The Journalist Weekly, organized research seminars on special topics, and all in all brought the study of journalism into the temple of academia.
全書列為首位的人物是蔡元培，他是第一個將新聞學引進北京大學的人，並組織「北大新聞研究社」，出版「新聞週刊」，辦專題演講及研討會，將新聞學研究帶進學術殿堂。