
People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis


” Levitt’s deadpan spunkiness emerges throughout the essay. She is a proud reporter, insisting on the exterior, matter-of-fact, impersonal quality of her work, writes Gopnik. But she refused to become a journalist. “A reporter,” according to Levitt, “says what she sees; a photojournalist sees what everyone else is saying.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
The open question is whether ditching “journalist” would help at all in wooing audiences that might be questioning, hostile or apathetic toward news.