Stormwind Daily Newspaper

The Stormwind Daily Newspaper (often abbreviated as "Stormwind Daily" or just "The Daily")  is a free, public newspaper offered throughout Stormwind City. Whereas the paper focuses predominately on Stormwind-centric events, it does often cover events and individuals from elsewhere. It is currently the largest news publication in Stormwind City and the largest news publication ever established on Azeroth, reaching approximately 950 individuals with each issue.

Purpose
The Stormwind Daily Newspaper is the premiere print news source for all happenings within Stormwind City and beyond!. The newspaper publishes daily articles covering events, business promotions, interviews with interesting people, celebrity gossip, and more. The Stormwind Daily was founded to provide a free news source to every resident of Stormwind City. Though they initially charged a few copper per print issue, this purchase model was dropped altogether when a patron agreed to fund their operations.

The Daily aims to provide the residents of Stormwind with a variety of news, covering the most pressing and interesting topics of the day.

Founding
Sheera Prescott founded the Stormwind Daily in June 2020. In its infancy, the Daily was treated much like a personal column and storytelling opportunity for Prescott rather than as a news publication. Whereas several readers found this newsletter-esque approach charming, demand soon grew for more serious reporting on a more diverse range of issues away from simply Prescott's personal life. This resulted in Prescott beginning to interview various individuals from around Stormwind City and featuring their interesting stories in the paper. She also began following the arrests of the Stormwind City Guard and "looking for scoops" around the city beyond her limited scope.

Prescott's success with the Daily caught the attention of Lady Rose who offered to help Prescott's desire to have a free news source by providing the monetary needs to make the Daily free for all people. Prescott had been following Lady Rose and frequently writing articles about her, particularly on the dresses she wore, so she was beyond excited to accept Lady Rose's offer.

Expansion & Present Day
Now serving as editor in chief, Lady Rose worked on both widening the Daily's appeal as well as ensuring the aesthetic pleasure of each article, vastly improving the paper's formatting and styles. She began partnerships between the Daily and dozens of organizations, hired additional staff to cover more articles, and dramatically increased the circulation of the paper. Prescott continued to focus on writing slice of life style articles while Rose began covering government and guard affairs.

Since that time, the Daily has published close to one hundred issues and hundreds of articles and columns. The Daily is extremely popular amongst readers in Stormwind City, especially in Cathedral Square and the Mage Quarter, where residents can often be seen walking about with their copy of the Daily in tow. The Daily has international appeal as well, having issues circulated in Ironforge and Pandaria amongst other lands. It is usually the first choice for government officials, law enforcement agencies, event planners, clergy, and virtually everyone else to post announcements and tell about their stories.

Prescott eventually took an indefinite hiatus from the Daily to tend to personal matters, leaving her cousin, Soma Breyer, in her place as a reporter. Lady Rose and Prescott eventually promoted Breyer to take Prescott's place after being impressed with Breyer's skills as a journalist. As the Daily continued to grow and expand, Arinne Knottley, who was serving as a reporter, was promoted to join Breyer and Lady Rose as the Daily's third editor.

Advertisements & Events
This column is used for organizations and individuals to advertise events they are hosting or post job notices or organizational recruitment efforts. It frequently features reoccurring ads such as a recruitment messages from guilds across the kingdom; event announcements; personal ads for individuals looking for a specific service;  businesses advertisements; notifications about elections. Given the Daily is a nonprofit publication, it does not charge any individual or organization from running ads in their paper; however, they do regulate the content of the ads and may choose not to run ads for certain individuals or organizations.

Behind the Badge
Behind the Badge exclusively features law-enforcement related content. It contains arrest reports and arrest warrants submitted to the Daily by the Stormwind City Guard and other law enforcement entities.

Breaking News
The headline of every issue, the Breaking News columns features the most pressing or interesting article in the Daily. Dramatic headlines are often used here to grab readers' attention, though the headlines are not so hyperbolic that they are not representative of the content of the article.

Letters to the Editor
Several readers submit letters to the editor and a select portion of these letters are re-published in the Daily. The content of letters to the editor range from thank you notes for covering an event, person, or organization to criticisms about articles in the Daily. Fan mail or hate mail, each letter has an equal chance at being republished if it is of sound structure and uses the appropriate grammar and punctuation.

News
This is a catch-all column that tends to observe stories that do not fit into the other columns, hence it being labeled as general "news". Reoccurring news articles include such things as stories about the state of the economy and medical tips. Events previously advertised in the Daily are also frequently written about here, including classes at Stormwind City Community College. Several taverns, such as The Rose Garden Tavern, The Valabar, and The Violet Hour, submit articles about their opening nights and the activities of the evening. Life announcements are also frequently published in this column, such as birth announcements, wedding announcements, adoption announcements, and obituaries.

Medical Advice
The Daily has frequently run medical advice columns. The contents of these articles generally provide home remedies, advice about staying health, and warnings about special health hazards.

Tech Talk
The Tech Talk column looks at technology from across Azeroth and provides recommendations about uses and purchases of interesting technology.

People of Stormwind
Interesting individuals who inhabit or visit Stormwind City are spotlighted in this column, which explores the lives and backstories of people in and around Stormwind City. Reporters for the Daily may stop an interesting looking person on the street for an interview or may be assigned to speak with someone of some political, business, or social importance. The individuals in these articles vary widely and feature virtually everyone. It is the favorite column of many readers.

Celebrity gossip is also frequently covered in Talk of the Town. Coverage in this column can often be controversial given the disputable nature of some of the gossip. This column may also feature advice columns.

Politics
Covering the entire spectrum of politics from the Stormwind Crown Administration and all the ministries and sub-ministries therein, this column keeps residents informed on the laws, lawmakers, and government officials within Stormwind. It recaps important government meetings, advertises government appointments, publishes political opinion pieces, and more. Aside from Stormwind, the column may sometimes feature the politics of Ironforge, Gnomeregan, Kul Tiras, the Horde, and other nations.

Travel
Though scantly featured, Lady Rose will venture across Azeroth from time to time for a column called "Lady Rose's Adventures Across Azeroth", exploring places she expects to be interesting. Oftentimes, she is disappointed in the quality of her destination and comically insults wherever she ended up. Notable locations she has visited include Winterspring in issue 18, Pandaria in issue 19, and Sholazar Basin in issue 20. Once the Shadowlands became open for travel, Soma Breyer received reports from adventurers regarding their time in Oribus, Bastion, Maldraxxus, Ardenweald, and Revendreth.

Celebrity News
A rarer column, Celebrity News covered the affairs of notable individuals in Stormwind. Most of these individuals were politicians and would be noted in the Politics column; however, there were some socialites who do not sit in the Stormwind House of Nobles or other government body. Lady Rose, for example, prior to joining the Stormwind City Guard and the Stormwind City Council, was frequently featured in this column. Celebrity news may now sometimes be featured in People of Stormwind 's Talk of the Town.

Cooking
Dr. Tah'Koz Appleton previously shared recipes for dishes she enjoys making and thinks others will enjoy, too. Notable recipes she has shared include Kun-Lai chicken in issue 51 and Tah'Koz's tacos, which are famous in Lions' Rest, in issue 28. The Rose Garden Tavern has also submitted some of their recipes to be re-published in this column. Recipes are now published in the general News column.

Editors
The Stormwind Daily is ultimately led by its editors, Soma Breyer, Arinne Knottley, and Lady Rose, who serves as the editor in chief.

Reporters
Reporters are employed to cover individual stories and conduct interviews. They are the primary staff group.

Columnists
Unlike reporters, columnists are assigned one specific area upon which to write. For example, Kaylyn Hartford exclusively writes News articles covering the affairs of The Rose Garden Tavern. Most columnists write with the Daily to promote events or organizations with which they have a connection, such as Secretary of Arcane Arts and Sciences Razavian Montierre, who wrote about about the Academy of Arcane Arts &amp; Sciences in the Stormwind Ministry of Magical Affairs.

Individuals who submit articles to be paper outside of Letters to the Editor are noted as "guest columnists" in parenthesis next to their name in the author line.

Photographers
Photographers would frequently attend events with reporters to photograph the happenings. Most photographs published in the Daily come from a photograph, though sometimes journalists will take their own photographs.

Distributors
Distributors are responsible for circulating copies of the Daily to the residents and people of Stormwind City. They often stand on street corners, passing out copies of the paper or walk down the street shouting about the highlights in the latest issues.

Sheera Prescott
Sheera Prescott founded the Daily with the motto "The truth is out there." and decidcating her entire life in Stormwind City to the success of the Stormwind Daily Newspaper. She was the face of the paper, serving as its co-editor, lead journalist, and even as a distrubtor, frequently handing out copies of the paper on the street. Sheera's former wife, Winnona Prescott, initially helped her with the Daily by serving as its photographer, but Winnona drifted away from the paper as she and Sheera's marriage fell apart.

During her time with the Daily, Sheera had a particular affinity on covering stories involving vigilante groups, namely The Eidolon, which was a crime-fighting task force of individuals with superhuman abilities. She also enjoyed covering vampyrs. Whatever the topic, Sheera's stories tended to be upbeat and personal, speaking to the readers if they were her own personal friends.

Sheera eventually decided to take an indefinite hiatus from the Daily and leave Stormwind altogether after her current wife, Audrey Bellerose, grew concerned for Sheera's safety in the city after Sheera's negative coverage of several criminal organizations such as the Xaxdorei Cartel and the Knee Cappers Gang. She will, however, still occassionaly submit articles to the Daily and does still confer with Lady Rose on the Daily's administration.

Lady Rose
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Lady Rose serves as the editor in chief of the Stormwind Daily Newspaper, though she holds many other positions throughout the Kingdom of Stormwind. At her core, Lady Rose is a socialite, which made her the prime person to help Sheera Prescott grow her small paper business, especially when Lady Rose offered to cover the expenses of printing so that Prescott could offer the paper for free. With Prescott's departure from the Daily, Lady Rose was responsible for overseeing all of the daily operations, though she relies heavily on her reporters to produce content. Lady Rose edits each article for grammar, style, and punctuation prior to publication and she frequently writes articles herself, chiefly in Politics and News. She coordinates all of the adverts in the paper.

Soma Breyer
Soma Breyer is a cousin of Sheera Prescott. Knowing Lady Rose would need assistance in the administration of the paper, Prescott arranged for Breyer to begin working at the Daily to cover columns Prescott normally covered. Though new to Stormwind City and a bit bashful, Breyer eventually found her way into Prescott's former role as a reporter and is now far more natural at conducting interviews and writing news. After impressing Lady Rose and Prescott with her journalism skills, Breyer was elevated to the position of Lead Journalist and Co-Editor, taking Prescott's previous position.

Trivia

 * The Behind the Badge column has the most number of articles published.
 * The Travel column has the least number of articles published.