History Main / SchoolNewspaperNewsHound

** Arnold continued to write for school newspapers throughout the rest of the series, and the occassional episode was dedicated to his developing journalism career. For instance, the last-aired episode of the series -- "The Front Page," aired March 7, 1986 -- saw Arnold go uncover to confirm suspicions that a popular athlete is using steroids.
* ''Series/FamilyTies'': Alex learns a tough lesson on journalism ethics in Season 1's "Big Brother is Watching," when he uncovers a cheating scandal involving his sister, Mallory, and most of the popular students/athletes. Despite an admonition by the adviser not to publish the story with the names, Alex feels obliged to do so ... and he loses his job as a result. Alex adamatly defends his stance, but Steven tells him that while he was correct in publishing an unflattering story, he was unfair by publishing the names of the students involved, none of whom had their due process yet.

* 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, but they tend to only do that on their personal time.

* in the ''{{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.

* The Broadcasting Club in ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy''. Specially Furutachi-sempai, who once ''seriously'' screws up by [[spoiler: taking pics of Miki and Yuu's recently re-married parents]]. To his credit, he immediately regretted the mess he had caused and [[spoiler: not only alerted the parents when Miki and Yuu were harassed by a SadistTeacher, but managed to bring them to the school so they would give their own testimony, leading the parents to pull a CrowningMomentOfAwesome where they pwn said teacher.]]

* Since it's a cartoon portraying middle school safety patrol officers as ''MiamiVice'' style detectives, ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' features its fair share of these characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' "The Big Scoop" revolves around the going-ons at the school paper, and a rival offshoot. Note that the viewer doesn't notice its presence before or after.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' Ron Stoppable tried his hand at it, and exposed [[FakeUltimateHero Adrena Lynn]].

* Maya from ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'' BoardingSchool case. [[spoiler: Which almost gets her killed, since she didn't know that one of her tapes had ''vital'' info about the case...]]
* Nanami Jinnai from ''[[Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld El Hazard]]'' isn't even in the broadcasting club, but she accompanies them in order to humiliate her older brother on live TV with (truthful) accusations of rigging the student council election.

%%* Mari Kawai from ''Manga/SlamDunk''.

* Since it's a cartoon portraying middle school safety patrol officers as ''MiamiVice'' style detectives, ''WesternAnimation/Fillmore'' features its fair share of these characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold!'' "The Big Scoop" revolves around the going-ons at the school paper, and a rival offshoot. Note that the viewer doesn't notice its presence before or after.

* 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). It's 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 spectacularely]]). In fact, in an aversion of this trope, the newspaper club's (of which Vincent soon becomes the only member thanks to his jerkassery) 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 journalism following his CharacterDevelopment (unfortunately, the damage is already done and he always ends up being the only one reading his own newspaper).

* Suzy in ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' is ''very'' enthusiastic about the Journalism Club and recruiting the new kid into it.

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

* [[SweetValleyHigh Elizabeth Wakefield:]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode "Dirty Laundry" featured The Red Guy being hired to manage the school's newspaper, which he turned into a tv network that showed fabricated scandals.

* Since it's a cartoon portraying middle school safety patrol officers as ''MiamiVice'' style detectives, '''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}!'' features its fair share of these characters.

* Shin in ''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 a publish it as a book one day. [[spoiler:In the end, she does, refusing to publish it as fiction despite her publisher's insistence]].
* ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' has Matt Wittany and Ken Lawson, the former of which has apparently interviewed just about everybody in Southridge High School at some point, including [[TheStoic recluse]] Bobby Jacks.

* Emily Imagawa, one of our daughter's friends, in [[PrincessMaker Princess Maker 5]].

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

* Three of these characters are introduced in episode 29 of ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', trying to investigate the aliens living with Fuyuki [[spoiler: and pay for it dearly]].

* Tsutako and Minako from ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru''. Plus later on Minako's soeur Mami, HER soeur Hidemi, and Tsutako's "admirer" Shouko. It's a sprawling series.
* The Broadcasting Club in ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy''. Specially Furutachi-sempai, who once ''seriously'' screws up by [[spoiler: taking pics of Miki and Yuu's recently re-married parents]]. To his credit, he immediately regretted the mess he had caused and [[spoiler: not only alerted the parents when Miki and Yuu were harassed by a SadistTeacher, but managed to bring them to the school so they would give their own testimony, leading the parents to pull a CrowningMomentOfAwesome where they pwn said teacher.]]
* Raika Nario from ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}'' has a literal aiming sight on her camera and is intent on sniffing out juicy material.
* Three of these characters are introduced in episode 29 of ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', trying to investigate the aliens living with Fuyuki. [[spoiler: and pay for it dearly]]
** The club members are Tsukigami Chiryu, Yamaura Teimei, and the yet-to-be named camera man.
* Kazumi Asakura from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has [[{{Magitek}} magic-powered]] [=UAVs=] to assist her in this role.
* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' parodies it with Sawatari, an otherwise competent reporter with a penchant for making absurd claims about journalism before disproving them two seconds later.
* Momo from ''Manga/ManabiStraight''.
* Nanami Jinnai from ''[[Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld El Hazard]]'' isn't even in the broadcasting club, but she accompanies them in order to humiliate her older brother on live TV with (truthful) accusations of rigging the student council election.
* Hiyono from ''Manga/{{Spiral}}''.
* Kyoko Tohno from ''Anime/TokyoMajin''.
* Saehara Takeshi of ''Manga/DNAngel'', though he has a tendency to double as a one-man version of ThoseTwoGuys.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' had one of these purposely trying to dig up any dark secrets of the club, especially on [[ShelteredAristocrat Tamaki]], making it seem more like a School Paparazzi Hound. Naturally for a school catering the stinkin' rich, it is extremely elaborate, despite its almost zero readership. The school newspaper is straight-up ''called'' a gossip rag by Hikaru and Kaoru. The fact that despite being the son of the head of a famous newspaper the Newspaper Club's head doesn't dispute this fact (and during the episode that the newspaper is featured in is actively attempting to get information out of Haruhi that he can use to humiliate Tamaki) serves only to bolster this claim. It's also outright stated that the reason that the newspaper's circulation is almost nothing is ''because'' it focuses on dirty secrets of various other students instead of anything newsworthy.
* Kaori Shimakura from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' is an 8-year-old version of this trope. [[spoiler: There are [[HiddenDepths deeper reasons for it]], though: it's to cover up for her [[HeroicSelfDeprecation severe self-esteem problems]].]]
* Mari Kawai from ''Manga/SlamDunk''.
* ''VideoGame/KiniroNoCorda'' has Nami Amou who mainly reports on the schools music competition.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
** Despite not belonging to the school newspaper, Sadaharu Inui fits some of the tropes when he goes in his "data gathering" rounds, to the point of stalking his own teammates more than once just to get their reactions ([[ButtMonkey and getting beaten up when they find out]]).
** In the Chinese drama, [[{{Tsundere}} Tomoka]] [[FanGirl Osakada]] is actually a member of the school paper.
** WordOfGod says that [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Wakashi Hiyoshi]] is in the school paper, and it also states that when not in the tennis fields, he seems to always be on the look out for strange phenomena such as UFO's.
* Noto Kanazawa from ''Manga/SusumeKitakouHousoubu'' (by [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hidekazu Himaruya]]) is originally this, and later is both a SNNH ''and'' a WholesomeCrossdresser when he becomes a CanonImmigrant in the Noto-sama games.
* Ranko Hata from ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'', a CameraFiend who packs her own miniature TV studio. She also has a MoneyFetish.
* Maya from ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'' BoardingSchool case. [[spoiler: Which almost gets her killed, since she didn't know that one of her tapes had ''vital'' info about the case...]]

* The Press Society of ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'', although they do online articles for the Binan High website instead of a hard-copy newspaper.

* Milly and Tamiya of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', to the point that they can report on pretty much whatever the hell they want (up to and including love dodecahedrons and embarrassing childhood photos), and follow nearly everyone everywhere with their microphone and video camera. Curiously, despite this equipment, they have only a newspaper.

* Ditto with Taranee Cook and Irma Lair in "Stop the Presses" (''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'').
** In season two's episode "L is for Loser", the Grumper sisters join the school radio station (run by Irma) and go on the lookout for juicy gossip.

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

* Since it's a cartoon portraying middle school safety patrol officers as ''MiamiVice'' style detectives, ''{{Fillmore}}!'' features its fair share of these characters.
* PlayedForLaughs with AJ and Chester from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode "Dirty Laundry" featured The Red Guy being hired to manage the school's newspaper, which he turned into a tv network that showed fabricated scandals.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina Belcher is the only member of Wagstaff School's newscast club that actually cares about reporting the news, which resulting in her dominating the coverage of the Mad Pooper's rampage.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Ponyville Confidential" a gossip column in a school newspaper (with frighteningly thorough photo documentation) tears the town apart, and the teacher doesn't intervene until after the issue is resolved.

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 {{school newspaper newshound}}s 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".

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