This paper is an examination of the self-perceptions and professionalization of online journalists who worked for the first two Hungarian content-providing ventures, Internetto and the Content Project, and their successors, Index.hu and Origo.hu, respectively, between 1995 and 1999. I have analyzed how organizational cultures and values attached to technology interacted with the process of professionalization. The evolution of Hungarian online journalism exhibits three chief characteristics. First, the earliest online news sites were online-first and online-only. Second, the organizational contexts of the outlets were radically different. Though both outlets had publishers with international backgrounds, the journalists at Internetto operated as a kind of experimental community, while the Origo-team had to adjust to the organizational culture of a telecommunications monopoly. Third, the participants were simultaneously learning and formulating the rules of the then new profession called online journalism.

本文考察了 1995 年至 1995 年至匈牙利前两家内容提供企业 Internetto 和 Content Project 及其继任者 Index.hu 和 Origo.hu 工作的在线记者的自我认知和专业化程度。 1999. 我分析了与技术相关的组织文化和价值观如何与专业化过程相互作用。匈牙利在线新闻业的发展呈现出三个主要特征。首先，最早的在线新闻网站是在线优先和仅在线的。其次，网点的组织环境完全不同。尽管两家媒体都有具有国际背景的出版商，但 Internetto 的记者作为一种实验性社区运作，而 Origo 团队必须适应电信垄断企业的组织文化。第三，参与者同时学习和制定当时称为在线新闻的新职业的规则。