If you want to see todays true journalists, look at youtube and other social media. Armed with a phone and account they gather the footage onground free from editorial condtraints, link to sources and can readily and openly be critiqued.
By bothering to report, they normally have a subject interest and know as much if not more then mainstream counterparts.
Like newspapers and tv stations of old, quality veries. Unlike them, this is the major source of breaking news now from first releases of videos and pictures to live interviews.
If newspapers and stations cant present centralized and extreemely reliable critique, I predict their extinction.
