报童（英语：Newspaper boy）是一种职业，通常是十几岁的小男孩受雇于报社，根据分配的街道和路途，给报纸的订阅者分送报纸。他们通常骑自行车工作。

报童的职位在19世纪~20世纪上半叶，世界各国的民间故事、文艺作品中都占据了一个主导的地位，因为这个职业是提供给青少年的主要职业。不过，报童数量从20世纪下半叶开始已经急剧减少了。

报童减少的原因部分是由于晚报的逐渐消失。报童通常只有在放学后才有时间发送报纸，晚报的消失使得报童没有办法在下午的放学时间工作，而晨报必须在早上6点前发送。同时还由于人口分布的变化、劳动法、社会对童工的关注，这些因素都使得报童的工作逐步向成年人转移。

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For other uses of "paperboy", see Paperboy (disambiguation)

Paperboy (and very rarely: Papergirl) was an iconic role of youngsters, often their first job, in Western nations during the heyday of printed newspapers. A paperboy's task was to distribute printed newspapers to homes or offices of subscribers on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. This has often been a before-school or after-school job for adolescents. (Contrast with the newsboy or newspaper hawker, now extremely rare in Western nations, who would sell newspapers to passersby on the street, often with very vocal promotion. They were common when multiple daily papers in every city --as many as 50 in New York City --competed for sales each day.) Other phases of the newspaper distribution networks that developed--such as the siting of printing plants and the management of truck distribution networks--were typically not seen and not romanticized.