今年8月6日,是我国报界前驱者林白水先生英勇就义80周年。林白水是我国新闻界的耆宿老将。从1901年到1926年,他创办或参与创办的报纸达十余家,在中国报业史上写下了光辉的一页。林白水最突出的贡献是创办白话报,为实现报纸由文言文到白话文的转变,也即为报纸的通俗化,作出了开 August 6 this year is the 80th anniversary of the heroic sacrifice of Mr. Lin Baishui, the forerunner of the press in our country. Lin Baishui is a veteran of China’s news media. From 1901 to 1926, more than a dozen of the newspapers he founded or participated in setting up a glorious page in the history of Chinese newspapers. Lin Baishui’s most prominent contribution is the creation of vernacular newspaper, in order to achieve the newspaper from classical Chinese to vernacular, that is, for the popularization of the newspaper, made a