JOURNALS: "Your journal has been updated"
A Journal is simply a written or typed record of play. It should be kept by a player or one of the players for each session. Writing up the details of that session to a satisfactory standard (as judged by the other players) will earn the character of the player who writes the Journal entry +10 Karma as an extra per-session award.
Journal keeping is very useful for keeping records of the game and it also becomes a work of art in itself, with player handouts, maps, sketches, notes about people encountered, clues and so on. This sort of enriched experience helps make roleplaying the Amazing imaginative experience it should be, and can often inspire players to embrace other forms of art or creative writing as well.
If a Journal is kept then to the extent it contains information those "files" can be shared in the game with any other characters the keeper of the "files" decides.