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ABSTRACT Citizen journalism, which also can be named grassroots journalism or participatory journalism, is increasingly showing its boundless vitality and great influence in recent years along with the great develop- ment of new media and technology, so it has attracted a lot of concern in the field of journalism and comm- unication. The emergence and popularity of new media have made more and more ordinary people own the equipments of dissemination and acceptance and have a growing sense of democracy and rights awareness, such a fact makes a new journalism mode basing on the theme of non-professional journalism and commu - nication appear and be popular soon, therefore now anyone can be a reporter. Now, this mode has been used in a number of major events and emergencies and has caused a huge burst of energy, it has occupied an increasingly important position in the field of journalism and communication. The rapid development and popularization of new media and internet technology spawned the mode of citizen journalism, and also promoted its continuous development .It has changed the “broadcast mode”of traditional media from the top to the bottom into the “mutual broadcast mode ”with the flow of information from the bottom to the top while it’s appearance and development follow the natural laws .For traditional media ,it is a good assistant, they advance each other in many important events, but they are mutually exclusive sometimes. The relationship between traditional and new media has become a new concern. “How can they coexist ?”requires our consideration. The author here makes a simple analysis in this paper. McLuhan speaks highly of the role of the media in the history in his famous thesis of “the medium is the message”. He believes the truly meaningful and valuable “message”is not the content the