Gladwell on a Tipping Point -- for News Reporting?

Malcom Gladwell--whose day job was NY bureau chief of the Washington Post before writing The Tipping Point and other bestsellers----tells The Independent that his next essay for The New Yorker will be on on "the craft of news reporting." He  believes it "must be coddled and sheltered in an age of struggling newspapers," and is angered by "the notion that a newspaper is 'merely a monopoly protected by printing press and that the thing being called a journalist is the chance to write the news, as if there isn't this separate set of skills that are difficult to acquire and worthy of preservation. You can't start blogging at 23 and call yourself a journalist."  -- Barbara Bedway