傳統的新聞學研究通常傾向於在新聞室的情境中考察記者，而很少關注新聞室之外的空間。本文考察的正是後者，即在新聞室之外的空間，一個記者的詮釋社群如何形成。本文具體的研究對象是廣州一家以記者為主要服務對象的酒吧，名為「凸凹吧」，透過民族誌研究，本文發現，在總體壓抑的媒體大環境下，凸凹吧作為一個游離於組織之外的記者空間，吸引著大批同氣相求的記者加入其中，在同行互動的過程中，他們建構著一套另類的職業價值觀。

Traditional journalism studies tend to take the approach of newsroom studies, while falling short of exploring the extra-organizational space. The focus of this study is the latter, asking how an interpretive community of journalists is formed in the outside-newsroom social space. Based on an ethnographic study of a journalist Bar in Guangzhou China, this study found that the space was tremendously attractive to the journalists who were faced by a highly suppressive newsroom culture in their daily work. In their day-in-and-day-out social interactions in the space, they constructed a set of discourses about journalism that is distinctively different from those promoted by the state and formal news organizations.