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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1655161" data-attributes="member: 515">As someone who is a journalist IRL, maybe I can offer some insight.There is a significant difference between someone who can write well (craft skill, IMO) and someone who is a journalist (profession skill, again IMO). There are plenty of reporters who are good writers, but lousy at doing the other things that go into the job -- working their "beat" and their sources for story leads, researching stories, doing interviews, checking facts, tracking down hard-to-find sources, writing on deadline. On the other hand, there are plenty of reporters who are good at working their beat and finding stories, but the stories they write aren't very good. If it wasn't for a good editor to help shape their stories, their work would never be printed. So a good reporter would have ranks in both Craft: Newswriting and Profession: Journalist. Also, there is more to being a journalist than just being a reporter. A journalist can be a good copy editor, or good at doing page layout, and be a terrible writer and/or reporter. Not to mention in our world, a journalist can be a good photographer and barely be able to write his or her own name (I've seen it). This also doesn't take into consideration the different types of newswriting -- hard news, news features, editorials, sports, entertainment, lifestyles, analysis and critiques, columns. Some people are good at more than one of these types of writing; some are good at only one; some aren't good at any of them. For D&D terms, I would say a reporter would need ranks in both Craft: Newswriting and Profession: Journalist to be an effective reporter. Craft would be the actual production of the finished product and Profession would take into account all the other necessary abilities needed to be a good reporter. For purposes of earning money each week, let them roll a check using the skill they have the most ranks in (unless the job they are doing is strictly editing and/or layout, then use Profession). If they have 5+ ranks in the other skill, give them a +2 synergy bonus.</blockquote>

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