Maybe? Let's get some definitions: Who counts as a journalist/reporter? Who should we be respecting?

Of course "person who writes articles published in print news" is going away. But is the guy writing a well researched piece for Vox not a journalist?

It just seems like we have more everything, both signal and noise, and that's the issue. We wanted to democratize information, and we got it. Surprise, most people don't put out very good information. But at least we have a lot of it...

Local news is dying (and being monopolized by the Sinclair group), and being replaced by online news. By sheer numbers, even a 25% percent reduction in local journalism would vastly outnumber any number of paid online journalism, because there's an order of magnitude difference in the total niche space available.