最後離開的記者請關燈：評介林照真《我們怎麼失去的新聞江山？》

The Last Reporter to Leave, Please Turn Off the Lights: A Review of Chao-Chen Lin’s“How Did We Lose the Realm of Journalism?”

本篇書評引介林照真《我們怎麼失去的新聞江山？》，評價該書是新聞工作者生命史與台灣四十年媒體變遷史的交織書寫。本書從解除報禁與開放電子媒體後的新聞理想性出發，梳理媒體市場化、有線電視競爭、業配新聞、數位廣告轉移、平台演算法壟斷，以及生成式人工智慧的產業衝擊。本文肯定其對台灣新聞產業結構性衰退的完整記錄，並指出未來可繼續關注AI代理人、影音創作者與記者品牌化對新聞產製、勞動關係及公共資訊生態的影響。

This book review introduces Lin Chao-chen’s“How Did We Lose the Realm of Journalism?”, assessing it as an interwoven account of a journalist’s professional life and four decades of media transformation in Taiwan. Beginning with the journalistic idealism that emerged after the lifting of press restrictions and the liberalization of electronic media, the book traces media commercialization, competition among cable television news channels, sponsored news content, the migration of advertising revenue to digital platforms, the algorithmic dominance of platform companies, and the disruptive impact of generative artificial intelligence on the news industry. This review recognizes the book’s comprehensive documentation of the structural decline of Taiwan’s news industry and suggests that future research should further examine how AI agents, video creators, and the branding of individual journalists affect news production, labor relations, and the public information ecosystem.