By focusing on synthesis, analysis, and informed criticism, rather than straight day-to-day reporting, knowledge journalists are less restrained by the need to maintain access to sources, and thereby may have more freedom to challenge prevailing assumptions and conventions.

FORBES: How Super-Achieving 'Knowledge Journalists' Shape Our Thinking

The idea is the result of a survey carried out by America's National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California.

ECONOMIST: Marine conservation