ABSTRACT
What is a reporter, and how does a good reporter relate to the world? A good reporter is unavoidably linked with what society sees as important about journalism. Many claims are made about the importance of journalism in a modern democracy. That great Times editor Delane believed:
The duty of the journalist is the same as that of the historian – to seek out the truth, above all things, and to present to his readers not the truth as statecraft would wish them to know, but the truth as near as he can attain it.
