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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3321741" data-attributes="member: 18363">Journalists, as you describe them, did not exist in the middle ages. News traveled the countryside via peddlers, bards / minstrels, and travelers in general. In towns and cities - especially those surrounding the keep / castle / home of a lord, there were occasionally Heralds that would tack up &/or call out the current news or pronouncement from on high (ie: the most recent dictates of the local lord). Another possibility is the Scribe, someone who wrote of what they knew - on philosophy, alchemy, mathematics, religion, natural philosophy, law, warfare, or whatever. They would not be calling out the information or spreading it through any means beyond trying to sell their (self-written) tome (which, usually, were not all that large / long, as parchment and ink could be quite expensive then), but finding a scribe that wrote on current events and perhaps 'published' his collection of notes / thoughts on such every season or year might perhaps be close to the equivalent of a middle ages 'journalist.' However, I think the Herald would still be closer - calling out recent local news in the plaza, pinning up the new ordinance or law or pronouncement(s) of the local lord, etc.</blockquote>