History Main / GoingForTheBigScoop

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* Diethard from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' in Episode 4. "I want that camera ''right in his face!''" Diethard is an interesting example of this trope, as his fascination with history in the making is a full-blown obsession, and leads him to switch sides several times. He also takes an active role in affecting events as they unfold, rather than simply observing and recording.
* In ''Manga/FinderSeries'', his insistence on playing amateur investigator is what gets freelance photographer Takaba Akihito into trouble over and over and ''over'' throughout the plot. Though in his defense, even when he isn't trying to get a scoop, he still gets into trouble due to other factors completely outside his control.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** This is what gets [[spoiler:Kinue Crossroad]] killed in season 1 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''.
** Fran Doll becomes a war reporter in ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' and travels to battle zones to take photographs, at one point facing down a mobile suit that appears to be aiming at a child and threatening it by saying she'll publicize the atrocity. Shortly after this incident, she learns that Luzianna is suppressing her work by buying up the photos but not publishing them so the public won't realize how bad it's going, but she keeps taking her pictures after reuniting with Loran and company.
* Becky the information broker gets herself into trouble looking for exclusive info to sell several times in the first ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' series.
* Erika from ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'' is always on the hunt for a big scoop, even if that involves charging blindly into the Vice District of town. Despite her being, hmmm, 12.
* Kazumi Asakura from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. She actually manages to mostly avoid the whole DamselInDistress aspect; the one time she gets captured by an enemy it has nothing to do with her attempts to get a story. She gradually loses this trait. Of course, this probably has something to do with invariably winding up keeping [[{{Masquerade}} every]] [[CuteGhostGirl big]] [[LoveDodecahedron scoop]] a secret after finding out it would probably be a bad idea to get her teacher/longshot romantic interest fired. She's now more of TheTrickster, with her CuteGhostGirl best friend as a sidekick. (She can manage to look like an {{Expy}} of [[CunningLikeAFox Mitsune]] while doing it.)
* In ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', had Tatsumi Saiga ''not'' snuck into a certain high-class club for the rich and wealthy from Tokyo, he would've never become the main character indeed.
* Announcer Sasagawa of ''Anime/TomicaHyperRescueDriveHeadKidouKyuukyuuKeisatsu'' will always get right in the line of danger to cover a story, especially if it concerns Drive Head. This gets her into trouble when she rushes out during her vacation to cover a meteorite crash in the mountains.
* Yusuke Tozawa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' anime. [[InspectorLestrade Inspector Nakata]] abhors him and calls him "Hyena" for hunting after murder scenes, and as we can see in [[spoiler:ep. 08]] with displeased security guys, it's not the first time he asks for trouble.
* Mika of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is only a middle school SchoolNewspaperNewshound and ''already'' appears to have entirely suppressed her self-preservation instincts. Then again, it's not surprising that a character who is [[PunnyName basically named "Mass Media-ka"]] would want to get a head start on her reporter tropes.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', this trope got Carly Nagisa/Carmine [[spoiler: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]].
%%* Wolfina from ''Manga/ZombiePowder''.
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* The reporters in ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'' are unambitious and do what the government tells them to do. Why they don't go searching for hidden conspiracies? Because it's stupid in their situation, where creating chaos by revealing a new enemy when humanity got its hands full and more with existing enemies is the last thing anybody needs, including the reporters.
* It is a FandomSpecificPlot within the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' community to take Ayla Césaire's desire to do this from canon and exaggerate it, more often than not with destructive consequences.
** [[DeconstructionFic Deconstructed]] in ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak''. Alya considers getting 'exclusive content' for her Ladyblog to be ''[[SkewedPriorities far]]'' [[SkewedPriorities more important]] than anything else. Not only does she endanger herself, she endangers others, accidentally leading akuma straight to other potential victims and posting content on her blog without considering that ''Hawkmoth'' might be keeping tabs on it. Furthermore, she films others without their permission, and takes for granted the notion that "Ladybug always saves the day", using that to dismiss the potential consequences of her actions.
** In ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'', this tendency of Alya's is {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as she fixates on exposing Ladybug's identity... and unlike {{Canon}}, [[ForWantOfANail she and Marinette aren't friends]], so Marinette takes the threat she poses far more seriously. Along with the danger she's putting herself in in the process.
** ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'' also examines Alya's tendency towards this more closely, with her mother gently rebuking her for constantly putting her life on the line. There's also how one of the 'big scoops' she posts involves some [[ManipulativeEditing very selective editing]], causing no end of problems for the heroes...
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Insontis}}'', a tabloid reporter kidnaps the de-aged Kirk, heedless of the fact that 1) he was in the company of a Starfleet officer, and 2) his other guard is [[PapaWolf an extremely protective Vulcan.]]
* When your entire city is invaded by creatures from another reality, there is suddenly a distinct lack of places that could be defined as "safe." Even so [[BadassNormal Hiroaki Ishida and his camera crew]] risk their lives to warn Japan and the rest of the world about what is happening in ''Fanfic/TheTeacherOfAllThings''.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' parodies this when Annie becomes the ace newshound for Greendale, investigating why the Dean only texted white students when an event was canceled. Jeff, as the editor, orders her to stop.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Mac's stepson, young news-blogger Reed Garrett, pursues the Cabbie Killer so doggedly he ends up getting kidnapped by the guy and barely survives getting his throat slashed.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]], Penny Carter, science correspondent for the ''Observer'', hides in the Adipose Industries building after hours to find out the secret behind their suspiciously effective diet pills. For her trouble, she is captured and tied to a chair twice, the second after the Doctor freed her and told her to GetOut
* Damien Day from ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' probably counts. (He's also willing to endanger, or at least frighten ''other'' people for a story). He was later revealed to be a virgin who channeled his sexual drive into his work but then had a brief fling with a similarly inclined female reporter which was built around having sex in dangerous places.
** He also always carried [[EmpathyDollShot a bloodstained teddy bear]] in his briefcase, in case there weren't any sufficiently shocking images available at the disaster scene.
** At one disaster scene he wanted to film with a crying child, but the only child in the vicinity was perfectly happy. [[KickTheDog So Damien slapped him.]]
** His cameraman [[ButtMonkey suffers greatly for this]]; Damien at one point asks another member of the office to call his cameraman's wife after he's been hurt, noting that "she tends to get hysterical when she hears my voice on the phone."
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', though, Lois Lane starts to learn a few seasons in. A few days before her wedding to Clark, she starts freaking out because "anytime we're happy, something terrible happens!" Naturally, on the day of the wedding [[spoiler:she's kidnapped by Lex Luthor and replaced with a clone. Oh, and then she gets amnesia for a few episodes and believes herself to be a character from her secret romance novel, and Luthor to be "Kent", her love]]. Should've taken that honeymoon a little early after all. Or just not investigated that "one little story..."
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' when Lou gets the idea of having a cameraman ride along in a police car to film an arrest as it happens. And then nothing on that patrol route happens for ''days''.
* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', one of the numbers has this as her calling in life. While her main story is [[DirtyCop HR]], she also has an obsession with chasing the [[VigilanteMan Man in the Suit]], which makes it rather hard for Reese to protect her without exposing himself.
* Daniel in ''Series/SexTraffic''. He makes the not so smart move of trying to film a transaction taking place, despite the obviously evil guys standing right next to him. Naturally, he gets beat up for the trouble.
* Jake Sisko in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is a fiction writer at heart, but gets a job with the Federation News Service, which isn't always convenient for his dad the leading public figure. Jake also chooses to stay behind and cover the Dominion occupation of the station in spite of the risk. Although hampered by the Dominion refusing to transmit his stories, he still investigates and conducts interviews, at one point asking Kira and Odo some [[ArmorPiercingQuestion legitimate but uncomfortable questions]].
* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': In "Terror in New York City", TV journalist Ned Cook is determined to cover the event of the Empire State Building being moved. Even when the operation goes wrong and the ground starts cracking up under his feet, he stays where he is, until he falls through the ground, and has to be rescued in a very difficult operation.
* ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'', "[[Recap/VoyagersS1E20JacksBack Jack's Back]]": Nellie Bly tries to find Jack the Ripper so she can get the story on him.
* A {{deconstruction}} appears in season 5 of ''Series/TheWire'' - a reporter angling for a Pulitzer tries to act this role, along with making up sources and just plain lying, to get the perfect angle on a serial killer story. ''We'' know he never did anything remotely brave, and his personal communications with the "killer" are entirely fictitious... but [[KarmaHoudini everyone else seems to buy it]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
!!By Company:
* ''Creator/{{Atlus}}'':
** ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'': The game's IntrepidReporter, Tae "Kichou" Asakura. The monster Red Cape has been spotted in an abandoned factory? ''You wrote yourself'' that it "leaves behind nothing but a bloody corpse"? You have a problem with {{fainting}} under pressure or when extremely startled (and surely you ''must'' know this fact about yourself...)? You wear high heels, which, as you know, are not conducive to running for your life? Sure, no problem, you're gonna go all by yourself! Thankfully, she seems to have learned her lesson from that experience and asks someone to go with her next time she's working on a dangerous scoop. Hooray for CharacterDevelopment!
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' with Hijiri, an occult journalist who sets his sights on [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hikawa]], whom he accuses of leading a fanatical cult obsessed with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]] into a massacre against an opposing cult. This ends up getting him caught up in the apocalypse, and he STILL insists on getting his scoop. Least unlike most examples, he managed to have the sense to stay in the nice, SAFE little save points after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the city wrapped itself around a big ball of light]] - until Isamu manages to piss him off enough that he goes crazy. It probably doesn't hurt matters that [[spoiler: Hijiri actually ''did'' die in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Conception]]; the Hijiri you encounter in the Vortex World is actually Hijiri's soul in a [[ArtificialHuman manikin]] body]].

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* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', Mike can contact Scarlet Lake with various stories about [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Halbech]] [[MegaCorp Inc]]. One initially wonders how she is able to survive doing this when the company is shown to not be above killing to protect their bottom line. [[spoiler:It makes sense once it is realized that she was never actually going to print any of the stories she received as she [[TheMole was on their payroll from the beginning.]] It also doesn't hurt that her other job as a ProfessionalKiller makes her a bit of a hard target regardless.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'''s Frank West, who takes time out to [[FirstPersonSnapshooter shoot photos]] of the zombies trying to gnaw on his arm. In fact, he came to the zombie-overrun mall the game takes place in ''by choice'', so he could cover the story up close.
* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'': What does Rinko do to pursue the case of kidnapped athletes for her magazine? Track down and approach Kojiro, an ArrogantKungFuGuy in the middle of busting dojos, who thankfully isn't the one behind it but no less a dangerous situation to charge into. She follows with the hero team even after they start fighting against man-sized alien dragonflies, creatures of the shadow world, or HalfHumanHybrid karate criminals to keep on the story.
* Madison Paige in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' routinely walks into highly dangerous situations alone while investigating the Origami killer. However, in each case she has the ability to escape from them on her own if the player makes the right movies.
* Kylie Koopa from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'' goes to great lengths to gather information regarding the Shroob Invasion which is then published in a book titled ''Fungicide: The Epic Battle for the Mushroom Kingdom''.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** Just before the launch of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[IntrepidReporter Emily Wong]] [[CharacterBlog livetweets]] the Reaper invasion of Earth. This would generally constitute Going For The Big Scoop, but she displays plenty of common sense in avoiding the actual Reapers and trying to stay alive. [[spoiler:It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she [[DyingMomentOfAwesome decides]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] a [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]].]]
** Played straighter with Diana Allers, who could have embedded with any number of Alliance ships, but she specifically chooses the ''Normandy'', which would promise to always be in the Reapers' crosshairs and whose predecessor was destroyed by Collectors just a couple years prior. And it pays off, as she gets front-row seats to such galactic community-shaking events as [[spoiler:the cure of the genophage and peace between the quarians and geth]].
* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': Mizumi is a {{downplayed|Trope}} example; while he doesn't rush headlong into danger, he's more than happy to accompany the tour group into the ruins despite the dangers because this gives him the chance to take some exclusive pictures, and potentially be the first to break the story. His more reckless tendencies actually lie elsewhere...
* Ben Bertolucci of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' is another subversion. He came to Raccoon City to get the dirt on what's happening to the town, but once he learns that it's falling apart under a small-scale ZombieApocalypse and he's trapped there, he gives up on chasing the story, locks himself in a jail cell, and refuses to leave until everything blows over. [[spoiler:Or blows up, which [[DeathByGenreSavviness he doesn't live to see anyway]].]]
* Likewise, [[SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Ran Hibiki]] of the ''VideoGame/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.
* ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'' gives us the borderline-suicidal Mika Banhara, who in a few levels decides to get a close-up of two HumongousMecha fighting. If she dies, it's a NonstandardGameOver. It's worse when she's in a van and seems to intentionally park underfoot. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential If you're feeling mean]], possibly because you [[EscortMission keep having to retry the level]], you can pick up that news van and toss it across the city.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' is all about reporters going after the big scoop and saving the galaxy.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] is frequently guilty of this in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', resulting in several [[StealthBasedMission stealth missions]] in which she has to sneak around armed {{mooks}} while photographing and stealing evidence of their bosses' schemes. Her insistence on throwing herself into danger contributed to her and Peter's breakup prior to the start of the game [[spoiler:but when they get back together, she justifies it by saying it's because she feels guilty about leaving him to do all the work saving New York]].
* Aya Shameimaru from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is known to act like this. In fact, she has her own spin-off game series whose premise is entirely that she intentionally pisses off the bosses of all the other games in order to take pictures of their [[BulletHell bullet patterns]] and supposedly interview them. She can get away with it because she's no slouch herself when it comes to fighting.
* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', reporter Elena Fisher and her cameraman Jeff pursue Lazarevic, a rogue general with an entire army under his command, into a war zone by themselves, resulting in Jeff getting killed. Though Elena is armed and fairly competent with a gun, bringing some cops or security guards with them probably would have been a good idea.
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* Kazumi Asakura from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. She actually manages to mostly avoid the whole DamselInDistress aspect; the one time she gets captured by an enemy it has nothing to do with her attempts to get a story. She gradually loses this trait. Of course, this probably has something to do with invariably winding up keeping [[{{Masquerade}} every]] [[CuteGhostGirl big]] [[LoveDodecahedron scoop]] a secret after finding out it would probably be a bad idea to get her teacher/longshot romantic interest fired. She's now more of TheTrickster, with her CuteGhostGirl best friend as a sidekick. (She can manage to look like an {{Expy}} of [[CunningLikeAFox Mitsune]] while doing it.)
%%* Wolfina from ''Manga/ZombiePowder''.
* Yusuke Tozawa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' anime. [[InspectorLestrade Inspector Nakata]] abhors him and calls him "Hyena" for hunting after murder scenes, and as we can see in [[spoiler:ep. 08]] with displeased security guys, it's not the first time he asks for trouble.
* This is what gets [[spoiler: Kinue Crossroad]] killed in season 1 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''.
* Erika from ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'' is always on the hunt for a big scoop, even if that involves charging blindly into the Vice District of town. Despite her being, hmmm, 12.

* In ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', had Tatsumi Saiga ''not'' snuck into a certain high-class club for the rich and wealthy from Tokyo, he would've never become the main character indeed.
* Mika of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is only a middle school SchoolNewspaperNewshound and ''already'' appears to have entirely suppressed her self-preservation instincts. Then again, it's not surprising that a character who is [[PunnyName basically named "Mass Media-ka"]] would want to get a head start on her reporter tropes.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', this trope got Carly Nagisa/Carmine [[spoiler: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]].

* Fran Doll becomes a war reporter in ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' and travels to battle zones to take photographs, at one point facing down a mobile suit that appears to be aiming at a child and threatening it by saying she'll publicize the atrocity. Shortly after this incident, she learns that Luzianna is suppressing her work by buying up the photos but not publishing them so the public won't realize how bad it's going, but she keeps taking her pictures after reuniting with Loran and company.

* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem. He will do anything to himself and the rest of the world for The Truth. "Sometimes I think that if I let my brain know what my gut was propelling me into, it'd chuck itself out my ear."

* This was the role of Vicki Vale in Burton's ''Film/Batman1989.'' She did such things as taking a ''flash picture'' while armed goons were removing Batman's mask, fer Alfred's sake! It ''did'' serve as a handy distraction when Batman was about to be unmasked...

* Obnoxious tabloid reporter Thomas Kemp in the monster-movie ''Film/{{Alligator}}''. He goes snooping around the sewer looking for "Ramon", the titular mankiller. [[spoiler: They meet, and Kemp's recovered ApocalypticLog photographs force the authorities to finally take the problem seriously.]]
* The protagonist of ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'' is Joey Summerskill, a reporter who sees her big break when she witnesses the effects of the Lament Configuration on a hospital patient and gets wrapped up Pinhead's plot.

* In ''Film/DieHard2'', reporter Samantha Coleman helps John chase the villains making their getaway in her news helicopter. Yes, she is revealed as a genuinely nice lady who genuinely wants to help, but the fact she is getting a spectacular exclusive of [=McClane=] stopping the villains at some personal risk is some incentive too.
* ''Film/TheNightFlier'': Richard Dees is a scummy tabloid report who continues to investigate a series of murders at country airports even when it seems increasingly likely that the killer is a monster of some sort. [[spoiler:The vampire finally murders him after noting that coming face to face with a real monster is the culmination of Dees's existence.]]
* Jimmy Stewart in ''Film/RearWindow'' is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg because he is an intrepid photojournalist who got too close to the action and got injured as a result. He doesn't let that stop him from being an intrepid journalist during the rest of the film, as he spies on his neighbor and eventually develops the idea that the man may have murdered his wife.
* ''Film/WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot'': All the reporters in the film are risking their lives for the big scoop.

* ''Film/Godzilla1998'': Cameraman "Animal" Palotti reacts to Godzilla arriving in Manhattan by grabbing his camera and chasing after the monster even as his wife is screaming at him to come back and everyone else is running very fast in the opposite direction. He ends up being the first person to get close-up footage of the kaiju after [[ByWallThatIsHoley almost getting stepped on]].

* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', though, Lois Lane starts to learn a few seasons in. A few days before her wedding to Clark, she starts freaking out because "anytime we're happy, something terrible happens!" Naturally, on the day of the wedding [[spoiler: she's kidnapped by Lex Luthor and replaced with a clone. Oh, and then she gets amnesia for a few episodes and believes herself to be a character from her secret romance novel, and Luthor to be "Kent", her love]]. Should've taken that honeymoon a little early after all. Or just not investigated that "one little story..."

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-->'''PHILLIPS:''' Now the whole field’s caught fire. (EXPLOSION) The woods . . . the barns . . . the gas tanks of automobiles . . . it’s spreading everywhere. It’s coming this way. About twenty yards to my right . . .
-->'''(CRASH OF MICROPHONE … THEN DEAD SILENCE)'''
-->'''ANNOUNCER:''' Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to continue the broadcast from Grovers Mill. Evidently there’s some difficulty with our field transmission.
-->'''Later...'''
-->'''ANNOUNCER TWO:''' Ladies and gentlemen, here is a bulletin from Trenton. It is a brief statement informing us that the charred body of Carl Phillips has been identified in a Trenton hospital.

* Franchise/{{LEGO}}:

* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'': What does Rinko do to pursue the case of kidnapped athletes for her magazine? Track down and approach Kojiro, an ArrogantKungFuGuy in the middle of busting dojos, who thankfully isn't the one behind it but no less a dangerous situation to charge into. She follows with the hero team even after they start fighting against man-sized alien dragonflies, creatures of the shadow world, or HalfHumanHybrid karate criminals to keep on the story.
* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', reporter Elena Fisher and her cameraman Jeff pursue Lazarevic, a rogue general with an entire army under his command, into a war zone by themselves, resulting in Jeff getting killed. Though Elena is armed and fairly competent with a gun, bringing some cops or security guards with them probably would have been a good idea.
* Creator/{{Atlus}}

* ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'' gives us the borderline-suicidal Mika Banhara, who in a few levels decides to get a close-up of two HumongousMecha fighting. If she dies, it's a NonstandardGameOver. It's worse when she's in a van and seems to intentionally park underfoot. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential If you're feeling mean]], possibly because you [[EscortMission keep having to retry the level]], you can pick up that news van and toss it across the city.

* Lotta Hart does it all the time in the ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' saga. Her photos are usually both the making ''and'' the breaking of the case against the defendant of whatever case she's gotten sucked into. Her photos that Phoenix uses for evidence are usually blurry, at odd angles, or out of focus, which makes Phoenix's cases much more difficult for him, and makes one wonder how Lotta can still be making a living as a photographer.

* Subverted in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. Just before the launch of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[IntrepidReporter Emily Wong]] [[CharacterBlog livetweets]] the Reaper invasion of Earth. This would generally constitute Going For The Big Scoop, but she displays plenty of common sense in avoiding the actual Reapers and trying to stay alive. [[spoiler:It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she [[DyingMomentOfAwesome decides]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] a [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]].]] Played straighter with Diana Allers, who could have embedded with any number of Alliance ships, but she specifically chooses the ''Normandy'', which would promise to always be in the Reapers' crosshairs and whose predecessor was destroyed by Collectors just a couple years prior. And it pays off, as she gets front-row seats to such galactic community-shaking events as [[spoiler:the cure of the genophage and peace between the quarians and geth]].
* Ben Bertolucci of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' is another subversion. He came to Raccoon City to get the dirt on what's happening to the town, but once he learns that it's falling apart under a small-scale ZombieApocalypse and he's trapped there, he gives up on chasing the story, locks himself in a jail cell, and refuses to leave until everything blows over. [[spoiler:Or blows up, which [[DeathByGenreSavviness he doesn't live to see anyway]].]]
* Kylie Koopa from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'' goes to great lengths to gather information regarding the Shroob Invasion which is then published in a book titled ''Fungicide: The Epic Battle for the Mushroom Kingdom''.
* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', Mike can contact Scarlet Lake with various stories about [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Halbech]] [[MegaCorp Inc]]. One initially wonders how she is able to survive doing this when the company is shown to not be above killing to protect their bottom line. [[spoiler: It makes sense once it is realized that she was never actually going to print any of the stories she received as she [[TheMole was on their payroll from the beginning.]] It also doesn't hurt that her other job as a ProfessionalKiller makes her a bit of a hard target regardless.]]
* Madison Paige in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' routinely walks into highly dangerous situations alone while investigating the Origami killer. However, in each case she has the ability to escape from them on her own if the player makes the right movies.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] is frequently guilty of this in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', resulting in several [[StealthBasedMission stealth missions]] in which she has to sneak around armed {{mooks}} while photographing and stealing evidence of their bosses' schemes. Her insistence on throwing herself into danger contributed to her and Peter's breakup prior to the start of the game [[spoiler:but when they get back together, she justifies it by saying it's because she feels guilty about leaving him to do all the work saving New York]].
* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': Mizumi is a {{downplayed|Trope}} example; while he doesn't rush headlong into danger, he's more than happy to accompany the tour group into the ruins despite the dangers because this gives him the chance to take some exclusive pictures, and potentially be the first to break the story. His more reckless tendencies actually lie elsewhere...

* Lois Lane in the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Superman cartoon shorts]]. ''Always''. She's not much different in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse either. Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', in which Lois' grief at the death of Superman sees her begin to turn this tendency to DeathSeeker levels; Perry White notes darkly at one point that she's still throwing herself recklessly into dangerous situations but Superman isn't around to pull her chestnuts out of the fire anymore.
* April O'Neil in the 1987 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' cartoon and the [[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures comic that spun off of it]]. Vernon Fenwick also does this frequently, as he's usually trying to out-scoop April.
* Ann Gora from ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''. She and her cameraman (kat?) are always dangerously close to the action, just to get their scoop.
* Alya from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' runs the Ladyblog, the main news source on everything related to the titular heroine, so she tries to get footage of every battle she can -- which, of course, means putting herself in danger for the sake of her scoop. One time, she even kept filming while an akuma was kidnapping her, and tried to ''interview said akuma'', to boot! Ladybug, who is great friends with Alya in her civilian identity, finds this thoroughly exasperating.

* It is a FandomSpecificPlot within the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' to take Ayla Césaire's desire to do this from canon and exaggerate it, more often than not with destructive consequences.

* [[DeconstructionFic Deconstructed]] in ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak''. Alya considers getting 'exclusive content' for her Ladyblog to be ''[[SkewedPriorities far]]'' [[SkewedPriorities more important]] than anything else. Not only does she endanger herself, she endangers others, accidentally leading akuma straight to other potential victims and posting content on her blog without considering that ''Hawkmoth'' might be keeping tabs on it. Furthermore, she films others without their permission, and takes for granted the notion that "Ladybug always saves the day", using that to dismiss the potential consequences of her actions.

* In ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'', this tendency of Alya's is {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as she fixates on exposing Ladybug's identity... and unlike {{Canon}}, [[ForWantOfANail she and Marinette aren't friends]], so Marinette takes the threat she poses far more seriously. Along with the danger she's putting herself in in the process.
* ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'' also examines Alya's tendency towards this more closely, with her mother gently rebuking her for constantly putting her life on the line. There's also how one of the 'big scoops' she posts involves some [[ManipulativeEditing very selective editing]], causing no end of problems for the heroes...

* In ''Manga/FinderSeries'', his insistence on playing amateur investigator is what gets freelance photographer Takaba Akihito into trouble over and over and ''over'' throughout the plot. Though in his defense, even when he isn't trying to do this, he still gets into trouble due to other outstanding factors.

* His insistence on playing amateur investigator is what gets freelance photographer Takaba Akihito into trouble over and over and ''over'' throughout the ''Manga/FinderSeries''.

* ''Film/SupermanReturns'': Lois Lane. To the extent of [[WhatAnIdiot bringing her four-year-old son to investigate a potentially dangerous lead, without telling anyone where she went.]]

** ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'': The game's IntrepidReporter, Tae "Kichou" Asakura. The monster Red Cape has been spotted in an abandoned factory? ''You wrote yourself'' that it "leaves behind nothing but a bloody corpse"? You have a problem with {{fainting}} under pressure or when extremely startled (and surely you ''must'' know this fact about yourself...)? You wear high heels, which, as you know, are not conducive to running for your life? [[WhatAnIdiot Sure, no problem, you're gonna go all by yourself!]] Thankfully, she seems to have learned her lesson from that experience and asks someone to go with her next time she's working on a dangerous scoop. Hooray for CharacterDevelopment!

* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'': What does Rinko do to pursue the case of kidnapped athletes? Track down and approach Kojiro, an ArrogantKungFuGuy in the middle of busting dojos, who thankfully isn't the one behind it but no less a dangerous situation to charge into. She follows with the hero team even after they start fighting against man-sized alien dragonflies, creatures of the shadow world, or HalfHumanHybrid karate criminals to keep on the story.

* OriginalCharacter Erin Blogger is looking for a story that will get her taken seriously in ''Fanfic/StoryOfTheCentury''. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor She gets her wish when she gets entangled in the Kira case,]] and the guy who has to save her happens to be [[AntiHero L, the person who dragged her into it to begin with.]]

* This played out exactly in real life with Current TV's {{intrepid reporter}}s, Laura Ling (bonus points for the [[ThemeInitials L.L. initials]]) and Euna Lee, who were pursuing the big scoop when they were [[DamselInDistress taken prisoner]] by the evil [[DirtyCommunists Commie]] [[NebulousEvilOrganisation organization]], North Korea. Luckily, the [[AmericaSavesTheDay US Government brought them home]].

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* There's a reason ComicBook/LoisLane was called an "Intrepid Reporter"; it's because she had absolutely no instinct for self-preservation... at least, if she does, she never lets it get in the way of getting that Big Scoop. Especially amusing in the 1940s serials. She ''does'' have the world's most powerful being constantly looking out for her, but she did this before Superman came to Metropolis too. Having him around just let her have free rein to take ''even more'' crazy risks. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. {{Mooks}} take Air Force One while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire, then they [[OhCrap panic]] upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

* [[Film/SupermanReturns Lois Lane]]. To the extent of [[WhatAnIdiot bringing her four-year-old son to investigate a potentially dangerous lead, without telling anyone where she went.]]

* ''Film/UnderFire'': All three of the [[IntrepidReporter reporters]] in the movie, especially Russell, a photojournalist, are trying to track down Rafael, the leader of the rebels in the Nicaraguan Civil War. [[spoiler:It turns out he's really dead, but Russell ends up faking a photo for the rebels to make it look as if he's really alive]].

* ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson is frequently guilty of this in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', resulting in several [[StealthBasedMission stealth missions]] in which she has to sneak around armed {{mooks}} while photographing and stealing evidence of their bosses' schemes. Her insistence on throwing herself into danger contributed to her and Peter's breakup prior to the start of the game [[spoiler:but when they get back together, she justifies it by saying it's because she feels guilty about leaving him to do all the work saving New York]].

May result from "ImGoingForACloserLook". If they don't have [[PlotArmor main character status]], inevitably becomes a RedShirtReporter - but any character like this will be satisfied that even if you kill them, you CantStopTheSignal. Often, the big break in the case may come from [[OffTheRecord unconventional sources...]]

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* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', reporter Elena Fisher and her cameraman Jeff pursue Lazarevic, a rouge general with an entire army under his command, into a war zone by themselves, resulting in Jeff getting killed. Though Elena is armed and fairly competent with a gun, bringing some cops or security guards with them probably would have been a good idea.

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* ''Under Fire'': All three of the [[IntrepidReporter reporters]] in the movie, especially Russell, a photojournalist, are trying to track down Rafael, the leader of the rebels in the Nicaraguan Civil War. [[spoiler:It turns out he's really dead, but Russell ends up faking a photo for the rebels to make it look as if he's really alive]].

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* [[http://www.funimation.com/witchblade/characters/yusuke_tozawa.html Yusuke Tozawa]] from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' anime. [[{{Lestrade}} Inspector Nakata]] abhors him and calls him "Hyena" for hunting after murder scenes, and as we can see in [[spoiler:ep. 08]] with displeased security guys, it's not the first time he asks for trouble.

* In ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'', this tendency of Alya's is {{Deconstructed}}, as she fixates on exposing Ladybug's identity... and unlike {{Canon}}, [[ForWantOfANail she and Marinette aren't friends]], so Marinette takes the threat she poses far more seriously. Along with the danger she's putting herself in in the process.

* [[Film/{{Superman}} Lois Lane]]. To the extent of [[WhatAnIdiot bringing her four-year-old son to investigate a potentially dangerous lead, without telling anyone where she went.]]

* Susan Rodriguez is like this in the first few ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novels. She knows the supernatural exists and is obsessed with finding out about it and getting the truth out, to the point that she lets it override her common sense (and Harry's desperate warnings) to get the job done. Eventually, she pushes it too far, [[spoiler:attends a vampire party that she should have stayed far away from, and ends up becoming a Red Court VampireRefugee constantly having to suppress the urge to kill. And no, she is not CursedWithAwesome; true Red Court vamps are inhuman monsters, and the bloodlust is strong enough that she sometimes can't control it at all.]]
** Susan comes close to be a ''deconstruction'' of the trope, whether or not Butcher intended it that way, and it goes on beyond the [[spoiler:incident at the vampire party, eventually Susan's recklessness and failure to look at the world realistically gets her killed under ghastly circumstances]]. Over the course of the books, we see Susan repeat the same basic error over and over, with tragic results.

* ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'' gives us the borderline-suicidal Mika Banhara, who in a few levels decides to get a close-up of two HumongousMecha fighting. If she dies, it's a NonStandardGameOver. It's worse when she's in a van and seems to intentionally park underfoot. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential If you're feeling mean]], possibly because you [[EscortMission keep having to retry the level]], you can pick up that news van and toss it across the city.

* Subverted in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. Just before the launch of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[IntrepidReporter Emily Wong]] [[CharacterBlog livetweets]] the Reaper invasion of Earth. This would generally constitute Going For The Big Scoop, but she displays plenty of common sense in avoiding the actual Reapers and trying to stay alive. [[spoiler:It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she [[DyingMomentOfAwesome decides]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] a [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]].]] Played straighter with Diana Allers, who could have embedded with any number of Alliance ships, but she specifically chooses the ''Normandy'', which would promise to always be in the Reapers' crosshairs and whose predecessor was destroyed by Collectors just a couple years prior. And it pays off, as she gets front-row seats to such galactic community-shaking events as [[spoiler:the cure of the genophage and peace between the quarians and geth.]]

* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': Mizumi is a {{Downplayed}} example; while he doesn't rush headlong into danger, he's more than happy to accompany the tour group into the ruins despite the dangers because this gives him the chance to take some exclusive pictures, and potentially be the first to break the story. His more reckless tendencies actually lie elsewhere...

* You know, [[http://yamara.com/yamaraclassic/index.php?date=2005-10-27 that thing where]] ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'' found out what the most outrageous (if not most dangerous) sort of monster is...

* Edward R. Murrow, although there were others, made sure he got on a London rooftop to cover the action of the Battle of Britain in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for his radio network even as the bombs were falling around him.

-->'''[[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]]''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbR6jwEfQzQ One of the seams of our modern world]] runs through Iraq. That means that when our world starts to fall apart at the seams, it usually means that Iraq is one of the first places to start unraveling. And when that happens, one thing you can set your watch by is that NBC`s Richard Engel will be there in the middle of it so he can show the world what it looks like and sounds like from the middle of the unraveling.

* Kazumi Asakura from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. She actually manages to mostly avoid the whole DamselInDistress aspect; the one time she gets captured by an enemy it has nothing to do with her attempts to get a story. She gradually loses this trait. Of course, this probably has something to do with invariably winding up keeping [[{{Masquerade}} every]] [[CuteGhostGirl big]] [[LoveDodecahedron scoop]] a secret after finding out it would probably be a bad idea to get her teacher/longshot romantic interest fired. She's now more of TheTrickster, with her CuteGhostGirl best friend as a sidekick. (She can manage to look like an {{Expy}} of [[CunningLikeAFox Mitsune]] while doing it.)
%%* Wolfina from ''ZombiePowder''.

* There's a reason Comicbook/LoisLane was called an "Intrepid Reporter"; it's because she had absolutely no instinct for self-preservation... at least, if she does, she never lets it get in the way of getting that Big Scoop. Especially amusing in the 1940s serials. She ''does'' have the world's most powerful being constantly looking out for her, but she did this before Superman came to Metropolis too. Having him around just let her have free rein to take ''even more'' crazy risks. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. {{Mooks}} take Air Force One while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire, then they [[OhCrap panic]] upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

* The reporters in ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' are unambitious and do what the government tells them to do. Why they don't go searching for hidden conspiracies? Because it's stupid in their situation, where creating chaos by revealing a new enemy when humanity got its hands full and more with existing enemies is the last thing anybody needs, including the reporters.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Insontis}}'', a tabloid reporter kidnaps the de-aged Kirk, heedless of the fact that 1) he was in the company of a Starfleet officer, and 2) his other guard is [[PapaWolf an extremely protective Vulcan.]]

* In ''FanFic/LeaveForMendeleiev'', this tendency of Alya's is {{Deconstructed}}, as she fixates on exposing Ladybug's identity... and unlike {{Canon}}, [[ForWantOfANail she and Marinette aren't friends]], so Marinette takes the threat she poses far more seriously. Along with the danger she's putting herself in in the process.
* ''FanFic/TheOneToMakeItStay'' also examines Alya's tendency towards this more closely, with her mother gently rebuking her for constantly putting her life on the line. There's also how one of the 'big scoops' she posts involves some [[ManipulativeEditing very selective editing]], causing no end of problems for the heroes...

* Aya Shameimaru from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is known to act like this. In fact, she has her own spin-off game series whose premise is entirely that she intentionally pisses off the bosses of all the other games in order to take pictures of their [[BulletHell bullet patterns]] and supposedly interview them. She can get away with it because she's no slouch herself when it comes to fighting.

* This played out exactly in real life with Current TV's {{intrepid reporter}}s, Laura Ling (bonus points for the [[ThemeInitials L.L. initials]]) and Euna Lee, who were pursuing the big scoop when they were [[DamselInDistress taken prisoner]] by the evil [[DirtyCommunists Commie]] [[NebulousEvilOrganisation organization]], North Korea. Now the [[AmericaSavesTheDay US Government is scrambling to bring them home]].
** She was brought home. :)

* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'''s Frank West, who takes time out to shoot photos of the zombies trying to gnaw on his arm. In fact, he came to the zombie-overrun mall the game takes place in ''by choice'', so he could cover the story up close. For that matter, any game featuring a lot of FirstPersonSnapshooter gameplay.