Just have all journals start with their role since when people leave or don’t write journals, its hard to figure out the rest of the roles, by adding this, people can still fake their roles while being revealing their role if they don’t do anything.
seems good but others might not like it

Identifying a player’s role when they die has been rejected. This suggestion is different though. You’re suggesting text be filled in the journal that can be changed.
I previously talked about this, but its fine. I would imo rather a different change. To complete the same effect.