Daily Prophet http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...l/963da50d.png Staffed by: Xiao Qiangwei, News Section Editor Egypt Riddle-Greenwood, Daily Prophet journalist Journalists love nothing more than talk about themselves. Reporters reporting on reporters is a pleasing exercise in mutual self-affirmation. The Hogwarts job fair is thus a threefold victory for every quillwielder at the Daily Prophet - it is something to get the paper's pages filled with; the Prophet itself will be featured in any relevant article; and lastly, there is a booth staffed by genuine Daily Prophet employees ready (perhaps) and willing (possibly) to share their wisdom with young and bright minds! This time around, the last task has fallen to Xiao Qiangwei and his colleague Egypt Riddle-Greenwood. A stack of glossy pamphlets is available for the interested student. OOC: That pamphlet was made by Si. |
Selena looked at the pamphlet she held. She opened it and skimmed through. oooh, shiny!' Selena smiled. "Hello, my name's Selena," she said to the person at the booth, "can you tell me more about being a photojournalist?" Selena asked. |
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"Really? That's quite interesting," Selena said as she nodded her head. "Have you ever messed up before and accidentally gave in a wrong story? Or does someone read it over first before printing?" Selena asked. News was a fascinating subject, so was writing. As she listened, she felt compelled to be a writer as well when she grew up, though her parents would tell her otherwise. |
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Jude Harrison looked down at the pamphlet in his hand and contemplated on how this seemed incredibly interesting to him. The boy did like to write in his spare time, even if there were little doodlings all around his papers as well. He looked around for anyone that might come up to him and sell him the pitch of why the Daily Prophet is such a lovely place to work. |
Sarah had NO CLUE what she wanted to do with her life after Hogwarts.She knew she'd have to get a job, unless her parents wanted to support her for the rest of their lives? No? Hmmm.So anyway, because the answer to that was a no But this, this was the Daily Prophet, huh? Interesting pamphlet.... |
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That would be bad. He would have felt much more comfortable handing in an essay on the advantages of becoming a journalist. His hyphenated colleague was already chatting animatedly with a student, so when a girl, by the look of her of the thinking-about-one's-future age, stopped and studied the pamphlet right at the booth, Pepper got up and wandered over to her. "Good afternoon," he said, a little uncertainly, "would you be requiring assistance of any shape?" |
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She giggled, "Well be on the look out for the new Witchy Ways Mystery by Kenya Riddle." she told Selena. She tilted her head to take in Selena's question. "Well just start writing. Sit down everyday and try to write a little bit. Start a journal." she suggested. "And keep an eye open for new positions at the quill. I think thats the name of school paper here." she said. She hoped that was the name. "If you are a muggleborn or a half and half there are a lot of summer camps for creative writing. My daughter Paris went to one a few years ago and she really liked it." It was a long shot if the girl was a pureblood, but it was worth a try regardless. |
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-groan- Any assistance? Well, yes, but what on earth would she ask him? She wasn't very good at this. "Urrr, well yes please, if you don't mind.I was reading this," she waved the pamphlet in the air, as if he wouldn't have noticed her holding it already. "I was wondering if you could tell me EXACTLY what a journalistic career is like? I'm rather undecided on my future, so this job fair will come in very handy, I think..." Sarah smiled some more, trying to make him feel at ease as well.Truth be told, he looked more nervous than she did. |
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He gathered his thoughts. "There is not one specific path to take for journalism. Of course, you can study it at a number of universities, but you do not need a, er, degree in journalism or anything like that. If you are able to write well - and if you are lucky - you can get a sideways entrance into the journalistic career." He put the pamphlet back on the stack. "I went the traditional route, but maybe my colleague," he pointed at Egypt, "can tell you more. "As far as the normal day-to-day workings go, you are either out in the field talking to people, or you are at your desk, preparing your articles. I understand that a lot of Muggle newspapers work this way - their journalists are more a kind of office worker who file away stories the newspaper gets from central press agencies. Our wizarding community is smaller, so we can often are walking out and about to interview people." |
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'Of course, I have to put in an effort as well now don't I?' he thought as he stepped towards the woman that had spoken to him with the pamphlet in his hand. Looking down at the descriptions on the pamphlet and then back to the woman he finally spoke, trying to hide his Aussie accent. "Erm, so when I was looking at this," he motioned to the pamphlet, "I've written here or there but I think I'm more for the photography sort of thing, could you tell me a little about that?" |
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Emma saw the Daily prophet table, she smiled while the image of her writing for a living came into her mind. She walked over to the table and asked, " Hi My name's Emma Malfoy. Can you please tell me about being a Staff Writer?" |
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Sophia saw the Daily Prophet Booth. She was excited for the fact that she enjoys reading and she likes taking pictures ; she was the photographer of her family. She also likes writing random stuff and putting caption to every picture she took. Walking excitedly toward the Journalist, she said "Good day! I'm Sophia Diggory." Going on, "Hmm. What it's like? Being a Journalist? Are you kind of pressured that you have to think very carefully of every word that you'll write and every news that you'll share?" she asked. |
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Straightening his robes, Pepper walked over. The girl was already babbling excitedly, and Pepper had difficulty following her stream of speech. "I'm Xiao Qiangwei," he said, attempting to stop her. "Call me Pepper. Pleasure to be meeting you, Miss Diggory. "In answer to your question," he went on when he got the girl's attention, moving some hair out of his eyes, "there is no need to think that carefully about every word. A journalist should try to be as objective and informative as possible. That is our duty to the public." He eyed the girl. "Unless you are talking about the composition of each article itself. In that case, I recommend a good dictionary." |
Ty didn't really know why he had come. Of course, there was the fact that this was at Hogwarts and therefore automatically awesome in his eyes, but other than that. . . As he walked into the altered Great Hall, the first booth that caught his eyes were the Daily Prophet. It was just about the only thing purely magic that his household contained, and he had stared at all the moving pictures for HOURS after his parents had finished leafing through the paper. Making his way over, Ty instinctively grabbed a pamphlet without even looking at it and looked up at the people - journalists, right? - there. "Hello! What's it like, being a journalist? Is it fun? Do you really get to be mean and cruel and boss people around like in the movies?" he asked the first thing that had come to him. Of course, it never occurred to him that they might not know what movies were. Or find this statement slightly offensive. |
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Selena took the pamphlets gratefully. "Thanks, but though I might not go anyways, it's always nice to dream, right?" Selena smiled. As she opened them up to glimpse of the other life she wished she had. Her parents would find this thing outrageous. "For all of these, do you need parent consent in order to sign up for it?" Selena asked. She hoped the answer was no. |
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