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* The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of Jessica Jones (who in the main MarvelUniverse is a former reporter for the ''Daily Bugle'') runs the school TV station at [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'s high school. She knows Spidey is one of the other students and is planning to track him down.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'':

* The school newspaper "Étudiants debout!" (Standing up students!) in ''Series/RadioEnfer'' both subvert it and play it straight (except for the production values which are treated rather realistically). Its main writer, [[SmallNameBigEgo Vincent Gélinas]], uses to smear anyone he didn't like (or at least AccentuateTheNegative) while screaming "[[LargeHam It's a SCANDAL!!!]]", including the principal Mr. Giroux (which backfired [[LaserGuidedKarma spectacularly]]). In fact, in an aversion of this trope, the newspaper club's (of which Vincent soon becomes the only member thanks to his jerkassery before getting a new member with Dominique Vachon) budget gets cut quite often when the principal has enough of his crap. In the later seasons, though, he's shown to be capable of being a competent journalist following his CharacterDevelopment (unfortunately, the damage is already done and he always ends up being the only one reading his own newspaper).
-->'''Vincent:''' ''(after getting another budget cut)'' My next editorial will be [[LargeHam bloody! ''(makes quick throat-slashing noises)'']] Even if I have to [[{{Determinator}} write it on toilet paper!]]\\
'''Mr. Giroux:''' Good. [[DeadpanSnarker For once, your newspaper will be useful for something.]]

The counterpart to the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil is an absurdly elaborate school paper with production values and writing quality that real commercial newspapers would envy. The activities of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil and other very popular students will be chronicled in minute detail by the [[TitleDrop school newspaper newshounds]] that staff the paper, all of whom have very serious aspirations to a career in Journalism. Quite often they will also report about events around the city or town that the story is set in. Major plot points will be revealed [[TVNeverLies -- or distorted! --]] [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver on the front page]] of the school newspaper. A few schools even have radio and/or television programs run by a "broadcasting club".

* Gonzo of ''Beware The Gonzo'' got kicked off the school paper for being his, he starts his own gonzo style paper as a result.

** In ''Sweet Valley University'', she switches to TV and becomes an investigative reporter for WSVU, the campus station. She breaks several scandals that become on-going plot points in the series.

** On ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', Caitlin's legacy is carried on by Ellie, who both writes for Degrassi's school paper The Grapevine and interns under Caitlin herself. Ellie at times goes to great lengths for the sake of her reporting; for example, in the Season 3 episode "Take On Me" when she purposefully lands herself in Saturday detention in order to investigate a series of thefts. In season 6, she goes on write for her university's newspaper The Core, and by her final appearance in season 8 she has become one of the paper's editors.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell: The New Class'': Two episodes center around the school newspaper, the ''Bayside Breeze''. "The People's Choice," from 1994, centers around new faculty adviser Screech's attempts to improve the paper, leading to student staff members to skip class to work on the paper. The 1998 episode "Do the Write Thing" centers on administrative censorship after Mr. Belding withholds publication of an article about student athletes getting preferential treatment for such things as discipline and assignments. (The original series had no newspaper-centered episodes, but did have one centering around the school's radio station, KKTY, which has a news program.)

* Chloe from the early seasons of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. She was the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, her freshman year. Anyone who's been on a high school newspaper knows how ridiculously unlikely that is. However, considering that her entire staff consists of herself, Clark, Pete Ross, Greg Arkin (who's an early MonsterOfTheWeek) and occasionally Lana Lang, plus a couple of computer science students who service the computers, and a couple of photographers, it's perhaps not so surprising. They're all her contemporaries, implying that the entire previous staff of the Torch fell away or graduated the previous year, and she's the only one who's really invested in it early on.

* Shin in ''Literature/SailorNothing'', she like both Ivan Bezdomnies has the issue of sitting on a huge story which involves magic and stuff almost no one will believe. She's sitting on it and plans to publish it as a book one day. [[spoiler:In the end, she does, refusing to publish it as fiction despite her publisher's insistence]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' episode "The Grave Intruder" had Duzer take over control of the school newspaper to make up phony stories that cause a lot of problems in the school, such as Coach Cadaver being incensed by a story claiming he has a human brain and Headmistress Crone making advances toward Max Schneider after reading a story that claimed he loved her. Duzer eventually realizes that fake news stories are hurtful when the rest of the class fabricate a story about Duzer loving Frankentyke.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has a 21st century spin on the trope; aspiring journalist Alya Césaire runs a popular blog[=/=]fansite dedicated to titular superheroine Ladybug, cheerfully oblivious to the fact that Ladybug's civilian identity is her best friend Marinette.

* In a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Martin Prince has this role as a reporter for the "Daily Fourth Gradian".

* A-ko, B-ko, and C-ko from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' (and E-ko and F-ko from TheMovie). Who are [[NamesTheSame not to be confused]] with the characters from ''Anime/ProjectAKo''.

* in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Assassins' guild School is allowed its own student newspaper, the ''Cloak and Dagger''. In the hands of editor Rupert Mericet [[note]]A Guild pupil who takes his distant relative's sense of dark sarcasm and turns it into dark satire[[/note]] it becomes a lethal weapon and every new edition is very carefully edited by members of the teaching staff - just in case. Rupert Mericet is written as a deliberate Expy of Creator/PeterCook, the co-inspiration behind satirical magazine ''Magazine/PrivateEye'', who edited the student newspaper at Shrewsbury School and used it as a vehicle for slipping through items of gossip and potential libel concerning the teaching staff. Younger talents such as Mariella Smith-Rhodes and cartoonist Nigella Wiggs add to the sedition, and in fact the C&D is regularly mined by the gossip column of the ''Ankh-Morpork Times'' for useful snippets about the Guild. The Times pays well for stories - and Nigella's cartoons - which is a useful addition to a student's spending power.

* Raika Nario from ''Literature/{{Maburaho}}'' has a literal aiming sight on her camera and is intent on sniffing out juicy material.

* Tsutako and Minako from ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''. Plus later on Minako's soeur Mami, HER soeur Hidemi, and Tsutako's "admirer" Shouko. It's a sprawling series.

* Raika Nario from ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}'' has a literal aiming sight on her camera and is intent on sniffing out juicy material.

* Tsutako and Minako from ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''. Plus later on Minako's soeur Mami, HER soeur Hidemi, and Tsutako's "admirer" Shouko. It's a sprawling series.

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* Laurie in ''Film/TheWave1981''.

* Claire in ''Film/TheWitchFiles'', whose ambition is to be a TV journalist and eventually a national news anchor. It is her filming a story about detention that kicks off the plot.

* [[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Elizabeth Wakefield:]]

* From ''Literature/RachelGriffin'', Valerie Foxx, Girl Reporter.
* ComicBook/LoisLane becomes one of these in the YoungAdult ''Lois Lane'' series by Gwenda Bond. She writes for the "Daily Scoop", a teen-oriented website owned by the ''Daily Planet''. In the first book in the series ''Fallout'', she follows a story about school bullying that rapidly turns into something more.

* A variant in ''Renegadepress.com'', and a rather justified variant; the eponymous website, an e-zine, is written by the main students from their school, to their school, about their daily experiences.
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'':
** Walter Denton is editor of the school paper, the "Madison Monitor". From time to time he gets himself into trouble by writing editorials critical of Mr. Conklin or Madison High School in general, i.e. "Cafeteria Strike" and "Threat to Abolish the School Paper". "Marinated Hearing" revolves around Miss Brooks' attempt to keep Walter Denton from publishing an editorial insulting the Board of Education in revenge for only giving students 2½ instead of 3 weeks of Christmas Vacation.
** Walter also plays the gossip columnist in a couple of episodes, with a column entitled "Campus Dirt: Shoveled by Walter Denton". This is to Miss Brooks' dismay, as he uses the column to blab about her being disappointed that Mr. Boynton is away at a Biologist's Convention.
** Like any good high school reporter, he's also on the prowl for news. We see him at it in the episode "Kritch Cave".

* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': In Season 3's "The Power of the Press," Peter joins the Filmore Junior High newspaper staff and gains friends when he publishes their names in his column, "Scoop Brady." However, when Peter gets a poor grade on his science test (he had neglected to study), he decides to bargain for a better grade by writing a flattering article about the teacher (a gentleman nearing retirement age) ... the same teacher he and his fellow students had derided as being dull and using outdated teaching methods. Of course, the [[AnAesop episode's moral]] is enforced fully: "Flattery will get you nowhere," and Peter's "D" on his science test stands.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': In the fifth-season episode "Opposites Attract," Laura is the editor for the Muskrat Times (the Vanderbilt High School newspaper), and Urkel is a staff reporter.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell: The New Class'': Two episodes center around the school newspaper, the ''Bayside Breeze''. "The People's Choice," from 1994, centers around new faculty adviser Screech's attempts to improve the paper, leading to student staff members to skip class to work on the paper. The 1998 episode "Do the Write Thing" centers on administrative censorship after Mr. Belding withholds publication of an article about student athletes getting preferential treatment for such things as discipline and assignments. (The original series had no newspaper-centered episodes, but did have one centering around the school's radio station, KKTY, which has a news program.)
* Several ''Series/AfterschoolSpecial'' programs centering on censorship were set at a high school newspaper. The scenario usually saw the main protagonist (usually a self-assured high school senior girl who was the editor) uncover some major scandal or wrongdoing, or at the very least, write a story on a subject that paints the school in an unflattering light, the principal getting wind of the newspaper's plans, and efforts to stop the story from being published kick into high gear. The editor will invariably stand his/her ground, and the battle eventually is brought before the school board, and if not resolved go to court. Almost always, the student editor comes out victorious, leaving the administration and/or student athletes to deal with the fallout.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' was on her high school newspaper staff as a photographer, and later did some actual journalizing herself. The school's television news program was a common sight. (This is not as unbelievable as it sounds; it's the only public school in a county filled with people who would be paying large metric buttloads of property and other taxes.) In college, she joined the newspaper, but didn't stay; the paper was hip-deep in the factionalization of the campus, and Veronica wanted no part.
* Chloe from the early seasons of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. She was the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, her freshman year. Anyone who's been on a high school newspaper knows how ridiculously unlikely that is. However, considering that her entire staff consists of herself, Clark, Pete Ross, Greg Arkin (who's an early MonsterOfTheWeek) and occasionally Lana Lang, plus a couple of computer science students who service the computers, and a couple of photographers, it's perhaps not so surprising. They're all her contemporaries, implying that the entire previous staff of the Torch fell away or graduated the previous year, and she's the only one who's really invested in it early on.
* Pretty much the entire cast of ''Series/PressGang'', but particularly reporter Spike Thomson and features writer Sarah Jackson, fulfill this trope.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' did their usual [[ThreeShorts half-episode]] on this.
* In an episode of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Tommy turned his school's newspaper into this, complete with allusions to ''Film/CitizenKane''. In fact, the episode was titled "Citizen Solomon", despite this being the "B" plot.

* Sam from ''Series/{{Popular}}''.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'':
** ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' features student journalist Caitlin Ryan. While she was never ''quite'' as good as she hoped to be, the sequel series shows that she eventually achieved a successful career in broadcast journalism as an adult.
** On ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', Caitlin's legacy is carried on by Ellie, who both writes for Degrassi's school paper The Grapevine and interns under Caitlin herself. Ellie at times goes to great lengths for the sake of her reporting; for example, in the Season 3 episode "Take On Me" when she purposefully lands herself in Saturday detention in order to investigate a series of thefts. In season 6, she goes on write for her university's newspaper The Core, and by her final appearance in season 8 she has become one of the paper's editors.
** In later seasons, Chantay runs her own blog called the [[ContinuityNod Anti-Grapevine]], which is about the gossip and news of the school.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': An indiscreet remark in front of a New York University journalism student causes wild rumors to circulate across America about Jerry Seinfeld and his [[UnusualEuphemism long time companion]] George. [[TheCatchPhraseCatchesOn Not that there's anything wrong with that...]]
* Harry Kim on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' claimed to have edited the newspaper of Starfleet Academy as a student, breaking the story of the Maquis rebellion and getting the faculty and the student body polarized and taking sides. He reveals this information to Neelix, spurring him to investigate the ongoing espionage and sabotage situation aboard Voyager. Neelix, the ship's cook, is then inspired to use his television program ''A Briefing With Neelix'' to do some Real Journalism, and Neelix, and ultimately plays an important role in the unmasking of spy Michael Jonas. Ah, the power of the media.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' seems to get into this trope occasionally, especially with the school news coverage of the prom king/queen elections. Of course, this could just be more of Glee's typical over-the-top exaggerated style.
* The school newspaper "Étudiants debout!" (Standing up students!) in ''Series/RadioEnfer'' both subvert it and play it straight (except for the production values which are treated rather realistically). Its main writer, [[SmallNameBigEgo Vincent Gélinas]], uses to smear anyone he didn't like (or at least AccentuateTheNegative) while screaming "[[LargeHam It's a SCANDAL!!!]]", including the principal Mr. Giroux (which backfired [[LaserGuidedKarma spectacularly]]). In fact, in an aversion of this trope, the newspaper club's (of which Vincent soon becomes the only member thanks to his jerkassery before getting a new member with Dominique Vachon) budget gets cut quite often when the principal has enough of his crap. In the later seasons, though, he's shown to be capable of being a competent journalist following his CharacterDevelopment (unfortunately, the damage is already done and he always ends up being the only one reading his own newspaper).
-->'''Vincent:''' (after getting another budget cut) My next editorial will be [[LargeHam bloody! (makes quick throat-slashing noises)]] Even if I have to [[{{Determinator}} write it on toilet paper!]]\\
'''Mr. Giroux:''' Good. [[DeadpanSnarker For once, your newspaper will be useful for something.]]
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' has Rory, who began the series as an aspiring journalist. Also [[AcademicAlphaBitch Paris,]] who runs the school paper like she's editor-in-chief of the ''New York Times.'' She gets worse when she runs the Yale newsroom.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' has Sabrina working her way into the field despite the fact that her favorite subject started out as being science.
* H.G. Wells High School from ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' has an actual news ''show'' rather than a newspaper, and Keely is both reporter and anchor. She loves reporting and it's often mentioned in the series that her dream is to become a reporter/broadcaster. Phil helps her out behind the camera.
* Parodied and lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', where Greendale is shown to have at least three in-college newspapers. Including one that caters exclusively to the Spanish market.

* Vashti Nadira in ''Series/FakingIt'', reporter for the school Tumblr, is quite the scoop-getter, especially of Hester High's favorite (faux) lesbian couple.
* Vicki Van Horton on ''Series/TheAmazingExtraordinaryFriends'' is a high school version of Lois Lane, including being obsessed with uncovering Captain X's SecretIdentity.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "The Dead Hand" is one. She is first seen exposing one of her teachers for selling good grades. One of her later pieces of investigative journalism gets her killed.

* Sophia from the ''VisualNovel/FadingHearts''.
* Emily Imagawa, one of your daughter's friends, in ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker5''.
* You can read the school paper in ''VideoGame/EscapeFromStMarys'', but when you meet a reporter, she turns out rather apathetic. No one reads the paper but the staff.

* The protagonists of ''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeSapphireFalls'' are on an assignment for their school newspaper. This is basically just an excuse for getting them involved in the plot, and it's barely mentioned after the first few scenes.

* Ivan Bezdomny in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'', overlapping with IntrepidReporter. It ends badly for, [[PronounTrouble um...]] [[GenderBender Bezdomny]]. The name is a direct reference to ''Literature/TheMasterAndMargarita'', whose Bezdomny is a sort-of college-age version of this.

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: Peeper tries to play himself off as this, but [[{{Paparazzi}} he's not fooling anybody]].

* The main characters from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' are in the Newspaper Club. They are often involved in several battles and even crimes, but they never mention their involvement at all to avoid even more attention from everyone at school.
** Whenever they have a report trip, they end up being involved in yet another crime or disaster just so they can stop it.

* The school newspaper "Étudiants debout" (Stand up, students) in ''Series/RadioEnfer'' both subvert it and play it straight (except for the production values which are treated rather realistically). Its main writer, [[SmallNameBigEgo Vincent Gélinas]], uses to smear anyone he didn't like (or at least AccentuateTheNegative) while screaming "[[LargeHam It's a SCANDAL!!!]]", including the principal (which backfired [[LaserGuidedKarma spectacularly]]). In fact, in an aversion of this trope, the newspaper club's (of which Vincent soon becomes the only member thanks to his jerkassery before getting a new member with Dominique Vachon) budget gets cut quite often when the principal has enough of his crap. In the later seasons, though, he's shown to be capable of being a competent journalist following his CharacterDevelopment (unfortunately, the damage is already done and he always ends up being the only one reading his own newspaper).
--> Vincent Gélinas: (after getting another budget cut) My next editorial will be [[LargeHam bloody! (makes quick throat-slashing noises)]] Even if I have to [[{{Determinator}} write it on toilet paper!]]
--> Rodolphe Giroux (the principal): Good. [[DeadpanSnarker For once, your newspaper will be useful for something.]]

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' has Rory, who began the series as an aspiring journalist. Also [[AcademicAlphaBitch Paris,]] who runs the school paper like she's editor-in-chief of the ''New York Times.'' She turns it UpToEleven when she runs the Yale newsroom.

* A dark example would be Info-chan from ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. She encourages the VillainProtagonist to kill her rivals so that she could report on it in the school newspaper. She also offers assistance if you give her photographs of a [[PantyShot very specific nature]].

* A dark example would be Info-chan from ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. She encourages the VillainProtagonist to kill her rivals so that she could report on it in the school newspaper. She also offers assistance if you give her photographs of a very specific (read: panty shot) nature.

* Chantay from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' runs her own blog called the [[ContinuityNod Anti-Grapevine]], which is about the gossip and news of the school. Earlier seasons had the Grapevine as the school's newspaper, with Ellie as an aspiring journalist. However, Ellie never played this trope until she was at a college paper where that sort of dedication makes sense. Emma used the paper to push her liberal agenda.
* ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'': Caitlin started out as this way back when was never ''quite'' as good as she hoped to be back then but was able to make a successful career in broadcast journalism as an adult.

* A dark example would be Info-chan from ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. She encourages the VillainProtagonist to kill her rivals so that she could report on it in the school newspaper. She also offers assistance if you give her photographs [[PantyShot of a very specific nature]].

* Averted with the Mass Meida Club in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. Despite Shuchi'in Academy being a school for the ultra-rich and the club being run by the daughter of a major newspaper's editor, their production quality is in line with a real-life school newspaper and they only cover mundane school events and local news. Karen and Erika do both obsess with the student council (as fangirls), but they tend to only do that on their personal time.