Ornias Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 Currently, Journalism suffers from a few disadvantages that make the job both pretty hard and less engaging. Job Slot: For some reason the journalist job-slot overlaps with the slot for librarian, which means that a journalist who has no interest in hanging around the library is taking a librarians slot, and vice versa. I think it would make more sense if the journalist got their own job slot (or two, to allow for competition), and a very small room (especially considering all the maint tunnels we have, it would be easy to fit) equipped with a table, chair, newscaster, camera, lamp, and recorder. As a followup, the camera and recorder would be removed from the library back-room. Newcasters: Other stations have implemented features to make newscasters feel more like actual news sites, rather than just random ramblings. These include comments sections on articles and a view counter. Further, the input method is a one-line hard-to-modify line which erases EVERYTHING on occassion, with no way to edit articles that have mistakes. A proper interface, and way to edit articles with a view-history could easily solve this issue. Finally, pictures attached to newscasters are limited in that they only display the picture itself - none of the text you get from examining it. If there was a way to fix this, then the news would be a lot more user-friendly. Journalistic Ability: Journalists are often very limited in what they're allowed to do when it comes to antagonists if security is already on the scene. Although many HoS's and officers are very eager to allow criminals to be interviewed, it is very rare that they will allow journalists anywhere near antagonist actions as they are going on. That does make a lot of sense, and I'm not begrudging anyone for that, but it often means that journalists have no choice but to get third-party and biased reports on the situation. On the flipside, the most memorable moment I've had as a journalist was when a Head of Security (I think Dylan Sutton, but if it was someone else I apologise!) gave me a security vest labelled 'press' and allowed me in to photograph and document a combat situation. If a vest was avaliable in the Head of Securities locker for that purpose, or some other precedent was set to allow journalists to enter these more combat-heavy areas, it could greatly benefit their work, which is just as much an OOC job as an IC one. As it stands, Journalist is one of the most underplayed jobs because of how hard and draining it is to do properly. If we made these changes to allow it to be easier to get into, then we might see more journalists running around.
MoondancerPony Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 I'm all for this! If it gets approved I'd like to try making the changes to newscasters to make them more 'professional'.
Snakebittenn Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 Can we get the ability to pin like, recorder transcripts to newscasts?
NoahKirchner Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 holy fuckballs +1 please maybe add an ads section to the newspaper that people can actually write in too?
Owen Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 Yes, this actually sounds amazing. I really support this.
Arrow768 Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 Had a quick chat with [mention]MoondancerPony[/mention] They are going to work on it and I´ll help out if there are any problems. Moving this to projects then
Bygonehero Posted July 26, 2017 Posted July 26, 2017 Add the camera item to the journalists as well, so they have a movable camera point that's viewable from any entertainment access viewscreen
LordFowl Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 As Moondancer has decided to leave the dev team, I am returning this to the general subforum.
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