多年來，台灣報業穩定的市場生態，於2003年5月《蘋果日報》正式創刊後，進入了一個全新的階段。《蘋果日報》是台灣首次以零售通路為主體，成功打開長期由三報所壟斷的市場通路，全新的版面風格及大膽的報導角度，不僅帶給本地讀者新的閱讀感受，更進一步促成台灣本土報業生態的重組，在《蘋果日報》的衝擊之下，台灣傳統報業所面臨的挑戰，除了同業之間的競爭，更可怕的是本土報業整體市場的萎縮。《蘋果日報》加入台灣當地讀者的資訊取得通路，憑藉本身強大的產品競爭力，對台灣本地的報業市場造成了嚴重的威脅。 / 有鑑於此，本研究將《蘋果日報》發行後的市場稱為台灣報業的「新競爭時代」，針對六位具有代表性的資深報紙從業人員，分別從市場環境、通路型態、通路控制、業務推廣策略以及報業未來挑戰等觀點，進行深度訪談，同時結合研究者親身參與觀察所蒐集的資料，以行銷學4P中的行銷通路（place）作為主軸，研究新競爭時代，台中地區四家主要報紙行銷通路的型態與作為，並分析未來所能採取的行銷策略。 / In the recent years, the stable marketing ecology of newspaper industry in Taiwan entered a brand new stage with the publication of APPLE DAILY in May, 2003. By the way of retails, APPLE DAILY succeeded to break the marketing channel which monopolized by three newspapers for a long time. Its brand new layout and content not only brought lots of fun to local readers but caused the reorganization of newspaper industry in Taiwan. Under the impact of APPLE DAILY, the newspaper industry faced the competition from the same business. Moreover, the whole market became atrophy. It had posed serious threat to the newspaper industry.Therefore, the market was called “the new competition age of newspaper industry” in the thesis. In view of six representative senior newspaper jobholders, the researcher will carry on the depth interview separately from marketing environment, channel state, channel control, promotion strategy as well as the future challenge of newspaper industry and so on. Simultaneously, the researcher would unify the information collected by his participation and observation. The thesis would take the “Place” in 4P of Marketing Theories for the main axle to study the marketing channel state and conducts taken by the four newspaper agents in Taichung. Finally, the thesis constructed the marketing strategy which would be able to adopt in the future.