One more quote from the white paper. Tom Rosenstiel says these are the "eight journalistic attributes that should be carried forward."

• Journalists provide the facts.
• They make sense of what is happening.
• They stand as watchdog
• They show up and bear witness.
• They can be forum leaders in engaging the community.
• They aggregate and distill information for the audience to digest.
• They empower the audience.
• As more and more people become citizen journalists, they provide a role model for how news reporting is done.

Me, I'd like to strike a couple of those out. They need not be forum leaders in engaging the community. They don't empower the audience...their reporting provides the raw material for the audience to empower themselves. And as far as role models, I'd encourage journalists not to look at citizen journalists, but perhaps to an earlier generation of their own trade-practicioners. Or are none of them 'compelling' enough?