Corporate Reporter

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Corporate Reporter/Freelance Journalist	Access: Journalists Office Qualifications: At least 20 years of age, applicable Bachelors Degree from an accredited University. Employers: Not defined Supervisors: Executive Officer Duties: Report the ongoing events of the station, entertain the Crew with stories. Guides: Guide to Paperwork, Guide to Communication Devices

Known as the Corporate Reporter or Freelance Journalist, your job is to keep the Ship aware of what is going on or entertaining them with miscellaneous entertainment. It can be taxing work and many times a little slow, but it can also be rewarding when you have people liking, disliking, and offering input on your work.

Overview and Basics

The duty of every Journalist is to report the happenings aboard the vessel, this is most easily done through using the right set of equipment; you will need a folder, a recorder, a camera, a pen, and some paper. These can be used to get evidence to support your story, and then upload it to the newscaster, or broadcast it on the entertainment channel. Remember, rules on believability apply to your journalism, so make sure what you are doing is believable and within the server rules. Good luck!

Corporate Reporter

As the Corporate Reporter, you are working directly for your corporation to represent the ship's image in a positive light. You are equipped with a higher-grade Press Pass which grants you more access and given a higher degree of expectations. While not required to be absolutely loyal, the stories you write should present your corporation and the Command team in a positive light. You are a biased news source, think of yourself as a writer of propaganda. Authorities are not required to oblige your Press Pass, but they should be much more likely to.

Freelance Journalist

As a Freelance Journalist, you have much more liberty than the former. Any news you report is independent and can be positive or negative for the SCC, however, your Press Pass is lower grade, and most authorities will expect less discreetness of you. Your goal should be to deliver content that abides by any rules you choose, regardless of what other crew think of it. Note: Your stories can be censored. Tread carefully.

Creating and Submitting to a News Feed

You can create a News Feed to submit stories too. Simply open the interface of a newscaster and click the "Create Feed Channel" option. You will be able to set the channel name, and whether anyone or only you can submit stories to it. Then, select the "Submit new Feed story" option to submit a story to a channel. You will be able to choose which channel the story will be on, either yours or anyone else's that allows public submissions. You can then enter the actual text of the story itself under the "Message Body" option, and even attach a photograph from a camera to include in your story. You can then use the "Print Newspaper" option, and then the "Print paper" option to print a physical copy of all the news feeds and stories submitted to them to distribute. People will be able to comment, like, and dislike your news stories. This will let you know if you are doing an excellent job. You could also broadcast stories over the radio; however, it is best not to do so over common, and instead use the "Entertainment" channel (radio key :z or frequency 146.1). It is fine to advertise this over common, however do not advertise too much or it would be just as bad as if you were broadcasting over the common channel itself.

Traitoring

You could use your status as a journalist to try and promote libelous stories, and pin your crimes on other people, however this will take a lot of clever thinking. You can potentially get additional access through requesting it from a Head of Staff while investigating leads, within reason.