History Main / GoingForTheBigScoop

* Likewise, [[SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Ran Hibiki]] of the ''RivalSchools'' games is more than happy to get herself and her friends mixed up in an evil student's plot to take over the local schools, if it means uncovering the truth gets her a story on the front page of Taiyo High's newspaper.

* Although April O'Neil is not a reporter in the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles original]] ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles comics]], the IntrepidReporter role has recently been filled by Lauren Stanton, who, as a writer for "The Bullet", investigates gangland activity in New York. In her debut appearance, she is seen infiltrating a night club in order to spy on the underworld's movers and shakers, and later on, she attempts to report on a deal between groups.

*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an episode for the DCAU, {{mooks}} take Airforce 1 while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire. They panic upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

* Ann Gora from SwatKats. She and her camera man (kat?) are always dangerously close to the action, just to get their scoop.

* Inverted with Herbert Morrison, a radio reporter who in 1938 went to file what he thought was just going to be a routine story about the first arrival of a new German airship in New Jersey and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Fc8kIyMCo&feature=related ended up seeing the Hindenburg crash barely a few dozen feet in front of him]]. His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA live coverage of the disaster]] (which is where most references to OhTheHumanity are coming from) switches rapidly from almost-bored matter-of-factness to pure shock to genuinely distraught horror in an instant, and is all the more affecting for it.

* Denn Dur, a Sullustan from the [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse MedStar Duology]], explicitly goes running for trouble to report on, although he complains about doing so and is very cynical about hero types. In ''Coruscant Nights'' he's not really a reporter anymore, but he still does it, because his {{Nakama}} is usually there, although he complains even more, since he's not even getting paid now.

May result from "ImGoingForACloserLook". If they don't have main character status, inevitably becomes a RedShirtReporter. Often, the big break in the case may come from [[OffTheRecord unconventional sources...]]

Compare CameraFiend. See also RecklessSidekick.

* Lois Lane in the [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age]] [[FleischerSuperman Superman cartoon shorts]]. ''Always''.

* You're taking an obviously large risk if you become a military embed. Hazards include [=IEDs=], capture and torture, and getting shot. And having the CIA man you're trapped with take your communicator to call in an airstrike that turns many bad guys into giblets. No, seriously. Note that if you ''do'' have a non-null chance of being rescued or escaping, they'd sure-as-hell take it. Why kill yourself and the bad guys when you can just skip to killing the bad guys?
** You better ''hope'' that's a non-Elite warrior you're strapped to. Why? Because the elites know when they ain't going to be rescued and that it'd be better to die for your country and take out all those guys who captured you at the same time than it is to die a slow, painful, torturous death and leave the baddies alive. They'll call an airstrike on their own position.
*** And doing the same thing ''unintentionally'' in the stress and confusion of battle is a sadly common phenomenon...

** Thank you, [[BillClinton Bill Clinton]]. As for Laura Ling, she and sister Lisa are the ''personification'' of this trope. Laura wasn't even the first Ling to run towards North Korea. They're like if you took [[IndianaJones Indiana Jones]], made him into a journalist, and also made him two Asian sisters, and this is actually getting creepy now so this troper will stop.
** I personally think the NK's ruler has a... thing for Clinton. The demands to let them go? Send Bill Clinton over here so I can meet him.

*** At least Clark made sure Supernova was ''visible outside the window'' before jumping out of it. Lois relied on pure luck that Superman wasn't on a space mission at the time.
*** Actually Clark had NO idea if Supernova was a real hero or just pretending to be one, AND no way to survive the fall otherwise, so it was still stupid.

* Inverted with Herbert Morrison, a radio reporter who in 1938 went to file what he thought was just going to be a routine story about the first arrival of a new German airship in New Jersey and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Fc8kIyMCo&feature=related ended up seeing the Hindenburg disaster happen barely a few dozen meters in front of him]]. His live coverage of the disaster (which is where most references to OhTheHumanity are coming from) switches rapidly from almost-bored matter-of-factness to pure shock to genuinely distraught horror, and is all the more affecting for it.

* What? No [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh5Ds}} Carly Nagisa/Carmine]] here? It was this trope that [[spoiler:got her killed and brought BackFromTheDead to put her love interest Jack in a lose-lose situation of either killing her again, or losing to her and joining her in her LotusEaterMachine hell.]]

* [[Tropers/{{Clerval}} This Troper's]] mum used to be a journalist - normally just covering financial stuff and writing freelance features -- but my dad tells of a time when they heard gunshots while they were on holiday and she started running ''towards'' them.

* What? No [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh5Ds}}Carly Nagisa/Carmine]] here? It was this trope that [[spoiler:got her killed and brought BackFromTheDead to put her love interest Jack in a lose-lose situation of either killing her again, or losing to her and joining her in her LotusEaterMachine hell.]]

* What? No [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh!5Ds}}Carly Nagisa/Carmine]] here? It was this trope that [[spoiler:got her killed and brought BackFromTheDead to put her love interest Jack in a lose-lose situation of either killing her again, or losing to her and joining her in her LotusEaterMachine hell.]]

May result from "ImGoingForACloserLook". If they don't have main character status, inevitably becomes a RedShirtReporter.

* [[Troper/{{Clerval}} This Troper's]] mum used to be a journalist - normally just covering financial stuff and writing freelance features -- but my dad tells of a time when they heard gunshots while they were on holiday and she started running ''towards'' them.

* [[{{Clerval}} This Troper's]] mum used to be a journalist - normally just covering financial stuff and writing freelance features -- but my dad tells of a time when they heard gunshots while they were on holiday and she started running ''towards'' them.
* You're taking an obviously large risk if you become a military embed. Hazards include IEDs, capture and torture, and getting shot. And having the CIA man you're trapped with take your communicator to call in an airstrike that turns many bad guys into giblets. No, seriously. Note that if you ''do'' have a non-null chance of being rescued or escaping, they'd sure-as-hell take it. Why kill yourself and the bad guys when you can just skip to killing the bad guys?