The difference between 'writer' and 'reporter' or 'journalist' isnt that the journalist reports—she【C1】______sources, calls people, takes them out to lunch, and generally【C2】______as an intermediary between her audience and the world of experts. The journalist also writes, of course, but anybody can write.【C3】______few can get their calls returned by key congressmen, top academics, important CEOs. That is the powerful advantage that the journalist has【C4】______her audience: Shes got sources and they dont【C5】______the transaction between the journalist and the audience is that the journalist has the time, talent, and【C6】______to clearly communicate the ideas of newsmakers and experts,【C7】______then is the transaction between the journalist and those newsmakers and experts?【C8】______the journalist, and her institution, are profiting, hopefully handsomely, off their contribution to the enterprise. Its not going too【C9】______to say that the whole business would collapse without their【C10】______. Journalists without sources are, well,【C11】______writers. 【C12】______, those sources are giving up something of value. Theyre giving up【C13】______, for one thing. Some fine folks have spent countless hours【C14】______me through the details of the federal budget. Theyre giving up information that, in other【C15】______, people pay them for—consider a CEO who gives paid lectures or a life-long academic at a private college. They are【C16】______themselves to considerable professional risk, both by telling the journalist things theyre not supposed to share and simply by making themselves【C17】______to being misinterpreted in public. 【C18】______how does the journalist compensate these sources? Well, the【C19】______answer in a market economy would be that the sources to get paid. But, in a brilliant maneuver, journalism as a profession has deemed it【C20】______to pay sources for information. 【C1】