Otaku journalist who Won Best Community Journalist Awards! - By $LNBP DollarEditorialDirector

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By: Lebogang K. Tlou

Everything had gone well for the Master of The Game. Beyond the threshold from the polite waiting room, the Interviewee made a brisk walk up a short flight of stairs, ushered by Julia Editorialia: a Senior among the Editors at The Newspaper.  The Interviewee took it all in very quickly: at first quick glance, everyone knew the game, the machine was so well-oiled.  The Newsroom was glorious to behold to the Interviewee – The Otaku journalist who Won Awards for being such a treasure to employ, at first glance.

Open pan, Ota thought to himself as he followed.

Ms Editorialia, whom the Interviewee had become acquainted with in the waiting room when the stage had been set for the grand introduction of a great fit to the team, lead Ota into the Chief’s office.

“Greetings,” Ota said, granting a fair handshake, gentler than the first exchanged with Ms Editorialia. “I’m Ota.”

“Hi, yes, Ota, welcome,” said the Chief, smiling warmly wielding stern and sincere eyes. Ota recognized a fellow tireless worker immediately: the first one in, and the absolute last to leave – when all the final dots, comma’s and dates had been edited to perfection; a fellow who lives for the feeling of printing newspapers; a fellow newspaper Otaku.  The respect was as instantaneous as it had been with Ms Editorialia, who lead the interview which paved way for an Otaku journalist to winning the “Best Community Journalist Award”.

“So, Ota, tell us about yourself?” opened the Chief.

“Thank you for the opportunity, first of all,” Ota said politely. “Well, I’m an Otaku, and I am a journalist.  I freelance as a writer to finance my wrestling subscription: though it’s better to be employed as an Otaku; otherwise one delves too deep into obsolescence to recover, so I am here to write for you.”

The Chief smiled. Ms Editorialia nodded, signalling that the next question was coming.

“Your curriculum vitae says you live 14 minutes away?” Ms Editorialia verified.

“Yes, ma’am,” Ota replied instinctively. “I have been accommodated by my dad’s mom and her daughter, my aunt, in these streets, towards positioning myself in a progressive environment, since the pandemic, and all.”

“I see,” Ms Editorialia said. “Tell us your background story as an Otaku Journalist?”

Ota was salient, and to the point, omitting very little, if anything at all. There were institutions in his past where Ota had served as an intern, and those opportunities never yielded the career as a journalist Ota had set himself on a personal quest to earning over years in service to one place. Ota’s full account barely took 2 minutes, yet sounded like a journey through a series of great recollections of some stellar journalism. The brilliant presentation by Ota concluded on the sentiment that ‘the editor is always right, because the Editor’s role is to see the bigger picture, and that’s the sincere truth of the matter’.

Satisfied, the chief and Ms Editorialia presented with a case study with 3 sections to dissect.  Ota was so ecstatic to have made it to the Game setting surrounding the test, because Ota knew and understood that The Newsroom was an exotic space filled with writers from all across the ideological spectrum.  Ms Editorialia lead Ota from the Chief’s office, and showed him to the station where he would be working: there were four members of Human Resources portraying journalists, Ota suspected at first observation.

“Greetings! I’m Ota,” Ota said at large, nodding courteously to each individual, before acing the case study test Ms Editorialia and the Chief had presented to him.

“Remember, 30 minutes,” Ms Editorialia said, and Ota sensed her departing rather than saw – his gaze having been immediately pulled to the case study scenario – which is far too great in quality to be read for free by your hungry eyes, dear avid readers.

Ota finished in 20 minutes, and spent 5 minutes enjoying the great journalistic literature he had just magicked out. Ota announced to the Chief and Ms Editorialia that he was done. What shocked Ota to learn is that his screen was being monitored.

“Great,” said the Chief. “You write really well, and you can learn our style guide with time, and be a perfect fit. We watched you work: very particular. There are cameras everywhere, and even the screen was being monitored.  Welcome to the team: Julia, brief Ota on his first story.”

Ota signed a contract, and went on to become the most popular journalist in the most beautiful districts in Gold Metropolitan: the great city of Sovereign Azania which now employed the best journalist in the country; an Otaku who won community journalism awards over a career of 25 years in The Newsroom.

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