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The paper focuses on the question of journalistic identity from the perspective of technological and social changes. The author tries to reveal how the debate about the potential of online journalism influences the process of defining and redefining journalism, its standards and values. To answer this question, texts about journalism are analysed: the analysis focuses on interviews and commentaries about journalism in Slovenian quality press in 1995,2005 and 2006 (the papers Delo, Dnevnik, Ve čer and political magazines Mag and Mladina are included). The analysis shows how journalism is defined and organised as a profession and what constitutes good or bad journalism in a certain historical period. It is based on a premise that journalists create and share interpretations of events and social change through discourse and thus make sense of their professional life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper addresses the tabloidization debate but from a different perspective than dominant approaches which narrowly connect tabloidization with commercialization. The author analyses commentaries on and interviews about journalism in the serious press and tries to show how boundaries between journalism and non-journalism or good and bad (i.e. yellow) journalism are defined through these discussions and how journalistic authority is established. He argues that the question of journalistic authority is neglected in the prevailing accounts of journalism and tries to show how the "yellow threat" is used as a rhetorical ritual for maintaining and repairing the dominant, objectivistic journalistic paradigm. The analysis reveals various strategies through which serious journalism tries to differentiate itself from the tabloid press, such as emphasizing epistemological and methodological differences between the two kinds of journalism and ritual isolation of individuals who break the rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]