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Guided by the frameworks of boundary work and field theory, this study analyzed 65 news articles and 2203 online comments and found that journalists and audiences problematized Gawker\u2019s identity as a journalistic organization and evaluated the article based on traditional standards of newsworthiness, audiences asserted their role in journalism\u2019s larger interpretive community, and that the larger interpretive community assessed the article based on the ethics of outing. 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