History Main / SchoolNewspaperNewsHound

* Lucy Schultz of ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey''.

* Laurie in ''Film/TheWave''.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':

* Hoshizaki High School in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' has a newspaper club. However, unlike most examples in manga, this Newspaper Club is actually a ClubStub, and the newspaper they make--even after passing through the advising teacher with a 80% rejection rate--has few readership, even worse than the Earth Science Club, whose newsletter is strictly confined to astronomy and geology. It's to a point that the Newspaper Club attempts to scoop material to {{blackmail}} the Earth Science Club.

* ''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.

* 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.
* [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]'s high school friend Craig Rockland went running into danger on occasion for stories for their high school newspaper newspaper the Owl. Some of his articles were later picked up by Gotham papers since he tended to write about things like the teacher's union that people outside the school had an interest in.

* ''Film/{{Hamlet 2}}'' treats the school paper reviews of the drama club productions very seriously. Although that's more of a testament to main characters quirkiness than a universal opinion.

** Like any good high school reporter, he also on the prowl for news. We see him at it in the episode "Kritch Cave".

** One of the best-known episodes of the series -- and the template for the VerySpecialEpisode -- was the 1983 episode "The Reporter," where Arnold (Gary Coleman) writes a story about a drug deal made on school grounds. The principal, thinking the intended report was a fabrication (or at the very least, is unflattering), wants the story pulled ... until First Lady Nancy Reagan (in the midst of her "Just Say No" campaign) shows up to not only substantiate the story, but state that drug pushers are at work in schools across the nation.

* 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 publish 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/DegrassiJuniorHigh'': Caitlin started out as this way back when was never ''quite'' as good as it as she hoped to be back then but was able to make a successful career of broadcast journalism as an adult.

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' seems to get into this trope occasionally, especially with the school new's 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" (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 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).

** More recently we've been introduced to Amber Whimsy, who's articles are infamous for regularly invading students' private lives, with some help from her best friend Paige Single. She's more of a subversion though, as none of her stories of this nature have ever made it to print.

* 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]].

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' has Rory, who began the series as an aspiring journalist.

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

* ''VideoGame/KiniroNoCorda'' has Nami Amou who mainly reports on the school's music competition.

* The main characters from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' 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.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Truth or Ed" had Eddy take over the school newspaper and use it to publish outrageous stories, like Atlantis being found in Johnny 2x4's nostrils.

* Sophia from the ''VisualNovel/FadingHearts'' VisualNove.

* Kazumi Asakura from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has [[{{Magitek}} magic-powered]] [=UAVs=] to assist her in this role.

* Noto Kanazawa from ''Manga/SusumeKitakouHousoubu'' (by [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hidekazu Himaruya]]) is originally this, and later is both an SNNH ''and'' a WholesomeCrossdresser when he becomes a CanonImmigrant in the Noto-sama games.

* Sophia from the ''VisualNovel/FadingHearts'' [[VisualNovel visual novel]].

* 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.

* 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 ridiculous that is.

* The main characters from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' are in the Newspaper Club. They are often involved in several battles and even crimes, but they never mention their involvement at all to prevent from getting even more attention from everyone at school.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has a 21st century spin on the trope; aspiring journalist Alya Cesaire 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has a 21st century spin on the trope; aspiring journalist Alya Cesaire 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. [[spoiler: What's going to happen with said blog after Alya gets superpowers of her own in Season 2 remains to be seen.]]

* ''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.

* Robbie from ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' turned The Slap (the school's networking blog site) into this, only instead of proper newshound he's a paparazzi journalist (his blogshow is titled Robarazzi).

* 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 [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'s high school. She knows Spidey is one of the other students, and is planning to track him down.

* 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.

** The club members are Tsukigami Chiryu, Yamaura Teimei, and the yet-to-be named camera man.
* ''VideoGame/KiniroNoCorda'' has Nami Amou who mainly reports on the schools music competition.

* 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 pwn said teacher.]]

* ''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.

** Tada Kanae from ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' goes on the same hunt however she only wants a picture of them, exposing them never comes up but she gives up over time. Her MonsterOfTheWeek turned people to stone with it's camera.

** 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.

* Parker Schmidt in ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'' runs the school news website single-handed. Wallace Wallace comments that he's everything but the official fact-checker, because they don't have one.

** Walter also plays the gossip columnist in a couple 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.

** 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 undercover to confirm suspicions that a popular athlete was using steroids.

* Chloe from the early seasons of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. She was editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, her freshman year. Anyone who's been on a high school newspaper knows how ridiculous that is.
* Pretty much the entire cast of ''Series/PressGang'', but particularly reporter Spike Thomson and features writer Sarah Jackson, fulfil this trope.

* 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 till 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 it as she hoped to be back then but was able to make a successful career of broadcast journalism as an adult.

* 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 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!]]

* In ''VisualNovel/PrincessEvangile'', Vincennes Academy has a newspaper club. Tamie Nogi is the president, and runs the club enthusiastically, always looking for a good story to cover. Once [[TheHero Masaya]] enters the school as the first male student, she constantly hounds him for interviews and pictures, something he's surprisingly okay with if it means that the other students will see him as something other than a pervert or voyuer.

* 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.

* 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 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]].

* ''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.

* ''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.

* In 1982, the principal of Hazelwood High School removed two pages from the school newspaper that he found objectionable, two stories on teen pregnancy and teen marriage. The author of the stories brought him to court, and the case went all the way up to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_v._Kuhlmeier the SUPREME COURT]]. That's right, the highest court in the United States had to decide on the Free Press rights of a school newspaper. Guess they really are [[SeriousBusiness serious business]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential'', 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.

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

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* ''Roleplay/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.
** More recently we've been introduced to Amber Whimsy, who's articles are infamous for regularly invading students' private lives, with some help from her best friend Paige Single. She's more of a subversion though, as none of her stories of this nature have ever made it to print.