With the research focus on “tizhiwai” (outside-the-system) journalists, this study attempts to understand how media organizations discipline and domesticate them and how they challenge established media routines. Due to the identity difference, it is comparatively uneasy for tizhiwai journalists to cultivate loyalty to media organizations. With the eager for social influence, some of tizhiwai journalists result in unprofessional activities and have to leave media organizations or surrender to accept the domestication.