fandomhigh | Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Class 1

The bell rang. Jonah immediately launched into his introduction. "Everyone here? Good! If anyone isn't, they'll have to catch up later. My name is J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle newspaper out of New York. I'm here to teach you kids how to be journalists. Stick with me and you'll be all-time greats. Show up late, slack off, or be an idiot and you'll be a complete failure in life who nobody will ever love. Sorry, but it's true."

"In order to become a good journalist, you have to have five things. One, an eye for a story. Two, a good memory or good note-taking abilities. Three, your head out of your butt enough to think on your feet and ask good questions when you need to. Four, the dedication to find out whatever it is you need to. And five, you have to figure out for yourself. I could tell you, but if I did that, I'd have to flunk you and I don't want to do any of that on the first day...."

"Okay, that's a lie. I'd love to flunk all of you on the first day, but that's just because it would be fun for me."

"We're going to start nice and slow this week. But considering that we're talking about how to make it as a newsman... or woman... 'slow' is a relative term. So let's do this. You," Jonah pointed to a random person, "give me your name, why you think you can make it as a journalist, and why I should give the tiniest bit of a crap about either of those. Go! Now!"

[OOC: Syllabus is here. Not that Jonah passed it out. This won't stop him from referencing it, though. Please glance at it for it contains important OOC info about the class.]

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"My name is Rikku," she said, bouncing to her feet and putting her hands on her hips. "I'm the editor of the school newspaper this year. Last year, I wrote a series about learning the Al Bhed language, and before that, I helped with making up horoscopes. Now I collect articles from everyone, throw it all together, make sure the paper goes out, and then we meet up to discuss doing it all again next week. Journalism is awesome."

"Editor, eh?" Jonah asked. "Congratulations, you're my new TA. If you're lucky, you might just find out how to be a great editor from me. It sounds like you have the basic idea down well enough, at least."

"Ooooh, thank you!" Rikku bounced. (Rikku always bounced. It was a Thing.) "It seems to be clipping along, at least. I mean, we get the paper out each week, I'm gonna call that a success, right there. So what's the next step, to being a better editor?"

"The next step is to bring me coffee to next week's class," Jonah said. "And if you somehow end up talking to my wife, don't tell her that I'm having caffeine or I will flunk you so fast your head will spin and your GPA will regurgitate." Jonah paused. "Also, take good notes when I'm talking. I've been in this business for twice as long as you've been alive, you can learn a lot from me."

"What kinda coffee?" Rikku said. Because he seemed like the type to get grumpy if she got it wrong, was all. "I don't even know your wife, you know. Is she on-island? I'm not supposed to have caffeine, either. It makes me hyper."

The fact that Rikku was visibly bouncing throughout this conversation might give an indication of Rikku's base state of hyperness.

"Coffee. Black. With caffeine," Jonah said. "And she's back in New York, but I wouldn't put it past her to find some way to check in on me."

"Black coffee, no decaf, and if your wife calls, I lie to her," Rikku repeated with a nod. "That's not so hard. Is it fun, being an editor? I kinda got the job by accident, I think, but I like it so far."

Not so much accident as showing up a lot. Still.

"I enjoy nothing more than writing editorials, so yeah, I guess you could say that," Jonah said. "If you don't count all the frustration when it comes to dealing with staff, advertisers, freelancers, and on and on and on."

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