If news is to survive, we need to define what a journalist is

Year by year, as the internet grows in power and reach, so we have less understanding of who has paid for the news and information we consume.
It’s not just a question of the fake news scare, highlighted this week by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the 28th anniversary of the worldwide web that he invented. It goes deeper than that.
Because aside from the current furore over bogus news sites and state-sponsored election propaganda, there is a more fundamental question on which the future credibilit