Journalist Job

[Embolism]

No other job needs an incentive to make you do it. People do most jobs for the sake of doing them, or because they enjoy doing them.

There usually is some kind of incentive. Scentists get all sorts of whacky stuff from their fiddling, as do Geneticists and Roboticists and Botanists and, well, you get the idea.

I did try my hand at journalism though and yeah, it can be fun even without tangible incentives. Using the current system however it is very cumbersome...

For starters, there needs to be a better in-game text editor if journalism is to work. Writing stuff down on paper is fine, but you can't edit them and adding to them is a crude process. Mass production and distribution is also a challenge.

I would suggest a computer-based text editor that allows you to save articles for anyone to browse via computers/e-mails/PDAs and also allows you to print out multiple hard copies, or perhaps allow newspaper vending machines to print them out on demand. Editing existing articles will immediately update online sources and future newspaper printings.

The ability to add photos to articles is also necessary. Perhaps there could be a scanner that allows you to scan photos as files, which you can then insert into the text editor to show/print a photo at the point of insert. Another thing that might be useful would be the ability to take photos through security cameras.

Fun idea: a remotely controlled spy drone. It should only have Assistant-level access (to prevent abuse) but maybe could have the ability to transverse the disposals network. Comes with a camera and audio recorder and can hide under tables and such like a monkey.