The mass media’s news reporting is helpful for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from food and beverage industry to break the problem of lack of marketing resources. As the mass media pay more and more attention to SMEs from food and beverage industry, the study of these enterprises’ media relations management becomes worthwhile. However, this issue has been overlooked by previous researchers. This study aims to analyze why some SMEs from food and beverage industry are chosen to be reported by the mass media, interaction model between the enterprise and the mass media,and the reporting’s influence on the enterprise’s operation. By interviewing with 16 SMEs from food and beverage industry, we found word-of-mouths of customer and mass media resulting from the enterprises’ products and characteristics are main reasons that attract the mass media to report. The enterprises intend to follow the mass media’s arrangement of interviews and don’t try to establish deeper relations with the mass media after the reporting. Although the reporting brings some advantages to the enterprise’s operation, it results in some unexpected disadvantages, too. According to the results, this study provides 11 research propositions for future studies and finally discusses the study’s theoretical contributions and management implications.