Young Reporter Formerly known as Reporter's Life, which was founded in July 1941, it was officially renamed Young Reporter in June 1942 as the journal of the Shandong branch of the Chinese Society of Young Reporters as advocated by Comrade Li Zhuru, Minister of Propaganda of the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the C***, President of the Popular Daily Newspaper, and Chairman of the Shandong Branch of the Chinese Society of Young Reporters. Young Reporter is one of the earliest and most influential news journals in China. In 2007, it was honored as "China's Top Ten Innovative Journals" and won the "China Media Industry Promotion Award".

On December 4, 2009, at the "China Media Conference 2009 Annual Meeting" organized by the China Journalism History Society and co-sponsored by the journalism schools of Renmin University of China, Fudan University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Communication University of China, Wuhan University, Jinan University, Xiamen University, Nanjing Normal University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Young Reporter was awarded the "Top Ten Innovative Journals in China" in 2007, and won the "China Media Industry Promotion Award". "

The Young Reporter was honored as one of China's top ten periodicals in 2009.

On December 18, 2009, the 2009 China Media Investment Annual Conference and Award Ceremony, which was jointly organized by the Academic Committee of China Media Forum and the Chinese media think tank STANCHINA***, was held in Beijing. The Young Reporter won the title of "09 China's most influential professional media". According to the statistics of "China Academic Journal Literature Evaluation and Statistical Analysis System" in September 2009, the electronic version of "Young Reporter" covered 29 countries and regions in 2008, and the number of institutional users reached 3,642, which is the highest among similar journals in China.

According to the statistics of Longyuan Journal Network in November, 2009, the network circulation of Young Reporter in Longyuan Journal Network from 2008.8 to 2009.8 was 550,000 times, and it ranked 10th in the overseas network dissemination of "current affairs" journals.