The Journalist

The Journalist is the character that narrates the ten Mysterious Tapes found hidden across the school grounds.

The Journalist is the character that the player can hear when they put the tapes into the tape player. Yandere-chan is able to play them in a cassette player in the Computer Lab to hear his tragic backstory. No other information is known of/about him at this time.

Backstory
Told in the Mysterious Tapes. Almost three decades before the events of Yandere Simulator, in year 1989, he was an aspiring journalist who decided to investigate a murder of a young girl at the nearby local high school. He had to do his research alone, as the police weren't allowed to conduct a formal investigation because of The Headmaster and the school was highly concerned with maintaining their reputation. Eventually, The Journalist discovered a peculiar yandere school girl who was stalking one of her upperclassmen.

Through student interviews and some research, he realized the girl was the one causing all of these things happening to her crush's admirers. He told the police and convinced them to take the yandere into custody, but she convinced the court with her excessive lies. There seemed to be no one who didn't believe her story and The Journalist's reputation plummeted. After receiving a chilling warning from the 1989 yandere, he endured years of public harassment no matter what the circumstance.

That is, until he met and consequentially fell in love with a woman about a year after the court case. This woman was caring, to a certain aggressive and clingy extreme. Despite The Journalist's puzzlement at her behavior, he admits that this was exactly what he needed. After six months of dating, the two got married.

The Journalist's wife died while giving birth to an only daughter. He neglected his child, who raised herself into an independent teenage girl who could possibly attend Akademi High School, given that's where he placed the tapes at for her to find.

After one failed attempt to catch the yandere schoolgirl of 1989 in the act, he began to fear for his life. He fled out of Japan and into America, and his current exact whereabouts are unknown. His last words spoken in the Mysterious Tapes are a tearful "I love you."

All of The Journalist's tapes can be proven false if the player does not use the canon elimination methods in 1980s Mode.

Personality
He has good intentions when stalking Ryoba and just wanted to do what's right. He appreciates fame, but he didn't just accuse a high school girl for the sake of it.

The Journalist is very observant and great at finding clues. He shows that when he first deals with Ryoba, seeing her stalk her senpai, and a few decades later when she stalks a young woman.

He must be very skilled, considering that he might be able to escape Ryoba after the ten weeks of the game are over if he appears in an ending.

If the player proves the Mysterious Tapes false by not using the canon elimination methods for 1980s Mode it is unknown what would make The Journalist say such things on the tapes.

Yandere-chan's Mother
Their backstory and how they interacted is told throughout the Mysterious Tapes. There's some more information on the Basement Tapes.

The Journalist can almost go blind with rage when he sees Ryoba, though he still runs away from her after she found him stalking her after a few decades. The Journalist revenge has seemingly failed for now, but he is said to possibly appear in a secret main story mode ending, which implies that he could've gotten away.

Ryoba doesn't kill The Journalist right away after the court case and he lives until sometime shortly before Yandere-chan's first day of high school, as seen from Basement Tape #10. Ryoba follows him to America, but it's currently unknown what happens next.

Trivia

 * The Journalist is voiced by Bradley Gareth
 * He was introduced in the August 10th, 2015 Update.
 * The Journalist might only appear in the ending cut-scene of 1980s Mode.
 * Some fans believe Info-dev is the Journalist's daughter.