Many lines of evidence have shown that the empathy abilities of medical students to negative events gradually decreased throughout the medical school, which indicates that medical training could affect the medical students’ empathy. Empathy has also been showed to play an important role during journalists communicates with the respondents. However, no study has so far explored empathy on journalists. In our present study, we investigated the empathy for pain of journalists compared to non-journalists. We recruited 30 journalists (13 males Vs 17 females) and 30 non-journalists with no experience of journalist (15 males and 15 females) as controls. 20 pain-related visual pictures and 10 non-pain pictures which were selected through pretest before our formal experiment were used as the stimuli. After presentation of one of these stimuli, subjects were asked to rate the pain intensity of themselves induced by the stimulus by the 10-point Likert-type scale(0- not painful and 10-most painful). We compared the pain index(PI) which are the sum of scores of all pain pictures for each subject between journalists and non-journalists. We found that the PIs of journalists was much higher than that of non-journalists, moreover, the PI were positively related to the career time of journalists. However, the scores to non-pain stimulus did not differ significantly between journalists and non-journalists. These results indicate that journalists display much higher pain empathy compared to non-journalists. Further analysis showed that the PIs did not show significant difference when they engaged in different television programs, which means that journalist types have no significant effect on pain empathy. But journalists did report higher level of care about others during social life compared to non-journalist, which suggests that more care about others due to career training could be one of factor influencing empathy on journalists. As we know so far, we provided the first experimental evidence for the higher empathy of journalists and also explored the potential factors which affect empathy ability of journalists. Therefore, our research is helpful to enrich the achievements in this research field and make a good understanding how the career training affects the human’s empathy. In our present study, we investigated the empathy for pain of journalists compared to non-journalists. We recruited 30 journalists (13 males Vs 17 females) and 30 non-journalists with no experience of journalist (15 males and 15 females) as controls. 20 pain-related visual pictures and 10 non-pain pictures which were selected through pretest before our formal experiment were used as the stimuli. After presentation of one of these stimuli, subjects were asked to rate the pain intensity of themselves induced by the stimulus by the 10-point Likert-type scale(0- not painful and 10-most painful). We compared the pain index(PI) which are the sum of scores of all pain pictures for each subject between journalists and non-journalists. We found that the PIs of journalists was much higher than that of non-journalists, moreover, the PI were positively related to the career time of journalists. However, the scores to non-pain stimulus did not differ significantly between journalists and non-journalists. These results indicate that journalists display much higher pain empathy compared to non-journalists. Further analysis showed that the PIs did not show significant difference when they engaged in different television programs, which means that journalist types have no significant effect on pain empathy. But journalists did report higher level of care about others during social life compared to non-journalist, which suggests that more care about others due to career training could be one of factor influencing empathy on journalists. As we know so far, we provided the first experimental evidence for the higher empathy of journalists and also explored the potential factors which affect empathy ability of journalists. Therefore, our research is helpful to enrich the achievements in this research field and make a good understanding how the career training affects the human’s empathy.