If serious journalism is to have any future, online reporters and editors, who probably already make up the majority of the profession, need encouragement.

A good reporter needs much more than press conferences.

Only professional reporters, Red Cross workers on a special mission and those with compelling humanitarian reasons need apply.

Yet school personnel and other mandated reporters do need sufficient information for authorities to accept a case.

A reporter doesn't even need to make a deal to protect a scoop, gratify a source and stiff the readers.

In short, reporters need to begin to try to understand the campaign that now goes on inside the private space.

A young reporter needed a quote, so I gave it to him at dictating speed.

But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.

A cruder reality is that reporters need to have a relationship with Clinton after Tuesday.