由三鹿奶粉引发的食品质量安全危机是一个比较典型且影响面极为广泛的公共危机事件,《人民日报》和《纽约时报》分别是中美两国最具影响力的主流媒体,在不同的国家利益、文化传统、政治制度背景下,它们对同一场危机的报道有何分野?本文选择两家报纸对于关于食品质量安全危机的高密度跟踪报道为研究样本,尝试采用内容分析法,对其主题进行尽可能详尽的分析,以期研判两家报纸在报道角度、报道手法及报道影响方面的不同。 The crisis of food quality and safety caused by Sanlu milk powder is a typical and extremely widespread public crisis. People’s Daily and New York Times are respectively the most influential mainstream media in China and the United States. What are their differences from the reports on the same crisis in the context of national interests, cultural traditions and political systems? This paper selects two newspapers for high-density follow-up reports on the food quality and safety crisis as the research sample, attempts to adopt the content analysis method, The subject was analyzed as thoroughly as possible with a view to assessing the differences between the two newspapers in terms of coverage, reporting practices and reporting impact.