In post-martial law Taiwan society, there have been many new movements on behalf of environ mental protection, educational reform, and protection for disadvantaged groups, and some reporters have come to understand these movements and have become participants in trying to report. In the end they have even become cheerleaders or activists for the movements; some have even left journalism altogether.
解嚴後的台灣社會，環保、教育、弱勢團體等社會運動頻發，有些記者因採訪而瞭解、參與事件，最後成為運動的鼓吹者，或社運團體的活躍分子，有些甚或因此而退出記者圈。