This paper content analyzed 1584 news samples from 10 news-papers in China in 2012 and 2018 with the aim of exploringhow the style of news has changed concurrent with the rapidexpansion of digital media. The results showed that newspaperjournalism in China is currently undergoing de-professionaliza-tion. Among six conventional indicators of professional news,three (brevity, immediacy, plurality of sources) are in significantdecline, and the other three (adherence to conventional newsstructure, objectivity, and public orientation) are in partialdecline. Such a shift can be interpreted as a decline in newsquality, or alternatively, the formation of new journalism.