What's the 'reporter' version of a mission?

So we all get how hard it is for a D1 athlete to come off a mission and compete physically.



What's the reporter/media equivalent of that "advantage"?



Reporter has to put all writing on hold for 24 months and only has a few hours 1 day per week to discuss sports and read other's work.



Can't use internet for engaging in discussions about sports with others. Only peripherally aware of rule changes and trends.



Can write in journal, but not about sports, and only for 30 minutes per day. (Can write about missing sports, and how when the 2 years is up, sports and the reporter are going to hook up again ;) ).



What else?



What reporter deserves to be presented this challenge? I'm sure they'd come back with a stark "advantage" in reporting.

-Their writing has to be in a foreign language.

-The climate produces arthritis in their hands, so they are slower and weaker in keyboarding their stories post mission.

If we want to make this real let them spend some time with food poisoning, Diarrhea and maybe a good bout of tonsillitis all adventures I had as part of my mission..

Also, they have to go sell security systems or pest control 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for those 24 months. But! All proceeds go to charity, and they live off a fixed, bare-minimum stipend that they pay themselves the whole time. They have to have line-of-sight to their journalist-turned-pesticide-hawker partner 24/7 (with a few exceptions for showering and using the toilet, of course).



And they have to do it in, oh, let's say, Detroit.