People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis
The open question is whether ditching “journalist” would help at all in wooing audiences that might be questioning, hostile or apathetic toward news.
Journalism minus the 'journalist'
Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.