This occupational simulation booklet on the newspaper reporter is one of several units resulting from the rural southwestern Colorado CEPAC Project (Career Education Process of Attitude Change). The purpose of this unit is to help students understand the kinds of writing that are contained in a newspaper while acquainting them with the type of work performed by a general reporter. The major activity in this unit is an 11-page simulation of the work performed by a general reporter for a small daily newspaper. This simulation provides students with experiences in writing a straight news story, a feature story, a sports story, a police news beat story, and interview questions. Preceding the simulation section, this booklet includes a teacher's key providing specific suggestions as to what should be covered during classroom discussions and points to consider in evaluating the written materials done by students. (EM)