News Tower

News Tower

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Traits Guide (Not Updated to Latest Version)
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A guide for the game News Tower that goes over the traits in the game.
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Introduction
This is a work-in-progress guide. Some traits may still be missing. I am hoping to keep expanding this guide to eventually contain more aspects of the game.



Your employees have traits which you can strategically use to enhance the performance of your tower beyond the basic levels. Some traits help the specific employee whilst others help the surrounding employees. There are two types of traits: Personality Traits and Trainable Traits. Some personality traits have a good combination with trainable traits, which allows you to create an employee with very high performance.

Personality Traits
Personality traits are those which are inherent to employees upon hiring them, which are permanent and cannot be changed, unlike the trainable traits. Personality Traits are introduced in March 1930 when playing with the intro.

So far, I have not seen much correlation between traits and job assignment.

Listed below are all personality traits.
Badge
Assignment
Name
Description
Bronze
All
Cheap
Just cheap. No strings attached.
Bronze
All
Quick Study
Gains experience 50% faster.
Bronze
All
Deadline Driven
25% Increased task speed saturdays and sundays.
Bronze
All
Monday Blues
Task speed reduced by 75% on mondays. But works for less money.
Silver
All
Yearly Peaker
Gains a 2% speed increase on tasks every month, but resets in January.
Silver
All
Big Bladder
Toilet stat decreases more slowly.
Silver
All
Big Eater
Nutrition stat decreases more slowly.
Silver
All
Nocturnal
Unaffected by darkness.
Silver
All
Trash Tolerant
Not bothered by trash.
Silver
All
Noise Tolerant
Not bothered by Noise.
Silver
All
Heat Tolerant
Not bothered by heat.
Gold
All
Tolerant
Not bothered by anything.
Gold
All
Breatharian
Lives without nutrition and toilet visits.
Gold
All
Musical
Likes to sing and counters noise!
Gold
All
Perfume
Likes to smell nice and counters smell!
Gold
All
Office Clown
Jokes around, making employees in the neighborhood more comfortable.
Gold
All
Natural Timekeeper
While reporting, speeds up all reporters that are reporting on the same item with 50%.
Gold
All
Natural Coordinator
Immediately unlocks the next story file within news. Note that once this reporter is assigned, it cannot be undone.
Gold
All
Celebrity
Celebrities are prestigious


Trainable Traits
Trainings can be acquired through a calendar event (unlocks in January 1931) or through purchasing them at one of the colleges. The two colleges are St. Paul's School (Garden City) and St. Elizabeth College (Morris).
Trainable traits are unlocked by training your employees. An employee is only able to have one trainable traits at a time, alongside their one Personality Trait. The trainable traits use the circular icon, seen below in bronze.

You can replace a trainable trait with a new one, unlike the personality traits which are permanent. If you are about to retrain an employee, you will receive the following message: "The employee you've chosen for training already has a trained trait. Once the training completes, the old trait will be replaced with the new one and will be lost. Cancel the training if you wish to keep the old trait. ([Checkbox] Don't show this message again)"

Listed below are all trainable traits.
Badge
Assignment
Name
Description
Bronze
All Reporters
Corner Cutter
50% off reporting time but adds sloppy Reporting.
Bronze
All Reporters
Undercover
Negates Mobsters risks on news items.
Bronze
All Reporters
Perception Inverter
Inverts the Story File's perception if it has any.
Bronze
All Reporters
Informationalist
Always skew Story File perception to Informational but takes 50% longer if it wasn't yet.
Bronze
All Reporters
Sensationalist
Always skew Story File perception to Sensational but takes 50% longer if it wasn't yet.
Bronze
All Reporters
Third Fiddle
Gives one quality star when assigned to the third Story File within an item.
Bronze
All Reporters
Informant
Negates Police Fine risks on news.
Bronze
All Reporters
First Aid
Negates Injury risks on news.
Bronze
Economy and Politics Reporters
Power Broker
Adds 12 hours of reporting time and an influence point to Politics or Economy items.
Bronze
All Production
Overtime
25% task speed increase during weekends.
Bronze
All Production
Line Worker
Works 50% faster when the next item comes within 2 hours of the previous one.
Bronze
Cartogropher
Wayfinder
Cartographer gains one quality star per connected Story File.
Bronze
Photographer
Perfect Angle
50% chance of taking the perfect shot and adding one quality star to a photo.
Bronze
Assembling
Eleventh Hour
If an item is at least 50% done on the last hour of sunday, it will complete before the end of sunday.
Bronze
Sweeper
Fast Sweeper
Sweeps a unit of trash twice as fast.
Bronze
Repairer
Rapid Repair
50% faster repairing.
Silver
All Reporters
Double Down
Double time but double the money or influence!
Silver
All Reporters
Clutch Performer
If a news item's expire time is below one day, adds two quality stars.
Silver
All Reporters
Mountain of a Mole
Adds a quality star and doubles the reporting time on a news item that contains only a single Story File.
Silver
Cartographer, Illustrator, Photographer, Society and Economy Reporter
Teacher
Adds a quality star when the Story File contains an Educational tag.
Silver
Cartographer, Illustrator, Photographer, Sports and Economy Reporter
Number Cruncher
Adds a quality star when the Story File contains a Statistics tag.
Silver
Cartographer, Illustrator, Photographer, Crime and Society Reporter
Gumshoe
Adds a quality star when the Story File contains a Investigative tag.
Silver
Cartographer, Illustrator, Photographer, Crime and Society Reporter
Digger
50% chance of adding a Scandal tag when used
Silver
Entertainment & Sports Reporters
Sharp Pen
Adds a quality star when the Story File contains a Review tag.
Silver
Society Reporter
Sociologist
50% faster reporting time for Society stories.
Silver
Politics Reporter
Politics Insider
50% faster reporting time for Politics stories.
Silver
Sports Reporters
Sports Expert
50% faster reporting time for Sports stories.
Silver
Crime Reporter
Crime Specialist
50% faster reporting time for Crime stories.
Silver
Entertainment Reporter
Professor of the Arts
50% faster reporting time for Entertainment stories.
Silver
Sales, Illustrator
Ad On
Adds $250 when used in an Ad.
Silver
Cartographer, Illustrator
Prime Pencil
First draft of an illustration or map every week is completed within one hour.
Silver
Resupply
Powerlifting
The ability to carry one extra crate.
Gold
All Reporters
Harmonize
Doubles the reporting time and adds one quality star for bronze tags. Two for silver tags and three for gold tags.
Gold
All Reporters
Coordinator
Immediately unlocks the next story file within news. Note that once this reporter is assigned, it cannot be undone.
Gold
All Reporters
Skillful
Adds a quality star for every maximum leveled skill without buffs.
6 kommenttia
Greenguh 28.12.2025 klo 23.46 
@oskatat, diplomat is still in the game - it's bronze and "opens up diplomatic route trait in news." haven't used it yet so not sure how useful that is
fresh meat 5.12.2025 klo 1.45 
Silver
Cartographer, Illustrator, Photographer, Crime and Society Reporter
Digger
50% chance of adding a Scandal tag when used on dirt tag
Oskatat 28.11.2025 klo 13.16 
frugal: production workers (I think?): Uses 50% fewer resources
There was a trait that told me it 'unlocked a diplomatic option', but I never saw it in action so I dont know what it actually did. It's on an incompatible save, so it may not exist anymore
Blochtheguy♛ 21.11.2025 klo 7.49 
Missing the psychic trait
MissPat 21.2.2025 klo 20.50 
Thank you for writing this detailed guide, much appreciated!
dragonfly2886 30.12.2024 klo 2.44 
good guide:desklamp2024: