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* Barely averted in ''The Public Eye'' (1992). Creator/JoePesci's character, playing a 1940's tabloid photographer, has been tipped off about a Mafia hit and is waiting, camera in hand. One of the hitmen sees him taking photographs and [[LeaveNoWitnesses aims his gun at him]], while [[DissonantSerenity Pesci raises his camera to photograph his own death]]...whereupon a stray bullet kills the hitman before he can fire.

* In ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', the Associated Press bulletin from Chamberlain, Maine goes silent after Carrie opens a gas main in the middle of town, which takes only a spark from a lit cigarette a few minutes later to send the offices of the town's newspaper up in flames. The book's [[EpistolaryNovel epistolary story]] includes the final bulletins from the paper before we get the following:
-->"There were no more AP reports from Chamberlain. At 12:06 AM, a Jackson Avenue gas main was opened. At 12:17, an ambulance attendant from Motton tossed out a cigarette butt as the rescue vehicle sped towards Summer Street. The explosion destroyed nearly half a block at a stroke, including the offices of the Chamberlain ''Clarion''. By 12:18 AM, Chamberlain was cut off from the country that slept in reason beyond."

* ''VideoGame/SteelHarbinger'' have an in-game cutscene where two news anchors (a man and a woman) are reporting live on the outbreak. A tentacle suddenly grabs and assimilates the woman, while the man, oblivious to what's happening, continues with his report as the camera focuses on him. Suddenly he realizes the woman beside him is now a half-human convert, and the screen goes dead.

--> "This is how a human dies. Ramming Speed."

''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': Towards the end of the Manga, a female reporter is doing a broadcast about a horde of sex zombies taking over the city when she is attacked by a group of them, ending the broadcast.

'''As a DeathTrope, there may be unmarked spoilers ahead. Beware.'''