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14	->'''Thatcher:''' Is that really your idea of how to run a newspaper?\
15	'''Kane:''' I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher, I just try everything I can think of.
16	-->-- ''Film/CitizenKane''
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18	An Intrepid Reporter is an investigative journalist who goes out and finds stories, rather than letting them come to them. Sometimes this seems to be the only kind of reporter used in fiction. A character's actual assignment might be something like "tell the readers who won the dog show," or "write a puff piece on our best advertiser," but something about the setup will inevitably spark a full-scale investigation.
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20	This kind of reporter is also known, in fiction, for getting far more involved in their stories than is usually recommended for real journalists. There might be a brief mention of "objectivity" or warning against "getting too emotionally involved," but if there's a CorruptCorporateExecutive to bring down, secret villainy to expose, or a DamselInDistress to rescue, the intrepid reporter will be right in there taking an active hand. Sometimes the term "muckraker" is used for this kind of journalist. Expect occasional examples of OffTheRecord information, whether or not they violate their journalistic ethics and reveal it.
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22	Due to HollywoodBeautyStandards[=/=]HiredForTheirLooks, this character also tends to be attractive InUniverse, and an object of desire for both [[LoveInterest the good]] and [[DamselInDistress bad guys]]. Morally gray, and villainous adult examples may not be above [[HoneyTrap offering]] SexForServices. For the upstanding ones, part of their drive may be to prove that they're not just a BrainlessBeauty that looks good on TV.
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24	Expect a lot of speeches about "the Truth", "Freedom of the Press" and "the People have a right to know." Despite this, they're typically troublemakers. After all, the lure of that [[GoingForTheBigScoop big scoop]] can lead to rushing into danger, trying to expose [[{{Masquerade}} secrets the protagonists would rather not have public]], or even [[TwistingTheWords fudging the facts]] to make a juicier story.
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26	The teenage version of this is the SchoolNewspaperNewsHound. The {{Jerkass}} or EvilCounterpart is the {{Paparazzi}}, the ImmoralJournalist (which is ''not'' necessarily the case for this reporter), or the PropagandaMachine churning out {{Public Relations Ad}}s if it's a large organisation. If an intrepid reporter has no name, and/or is clearly snooping around [[AbandonedArea somewhere]] [[NoOSHACompliance they]] [[RoomFullOfCrazy really]] [[SupervillainLair shouldn't]] [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse be]], they are most likely DeadlineNews as well.
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28	A popular character in action movies and cop shows, as it's a good way to introduce a civilian who has a plausible reason for repeatedly being InHarmsWay. It's also a great superhero secret identity to collect facts about crimes to thwart or fudge the facts when someone wants to expose the masquerade.
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30	See also DaEditor and GoingForTheBigScoop. Often wears a PressHat.
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33	!!Example subpages:
34	[[index]]
35	* IntrepidReporter/AnimeAndManga
36	* IntrepidReporter/ComicBooks
37	* IntrepidReporter/FanWorks
38	* [[IntrepidReporter/LiveActionFilms Films – Live-Action]]
39	* IntrepidReporter/{{Literature}}
40	* IntrepidReporter/LiveActionTV
41	* IntrepidReporter/VideoGames
42	* IntrepidReporter/WesternAnimation
43	[[/index]]
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45	!!Other examples:
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49	[[folder:Podcasts]]
50	* In ''Podcast/InStrangeWoods'', investigative journalist Brett Ryback uses his podcast and interviews to let the residents tell their stories in their own words, keeping himself on the outside of the story.
51	* ''Podcast/{{Limetown}}'' consists of the reports of [[LawyerFriendlyCameo APR]] reporter Lia Haddock as she goes ''way'' beyond what she has to (or perhaps even should) do to find the truth about the titular town.
52	* ''Podcast/MysteryShow'''s Starlee Kine is sort of an example, in that she'll stop at nothing to solve the MysteryOfTheWeek and share the story. In one episode, she gets an assist from a straighter example, an investigative reporter who has a FriendOnTheForce.
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55	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
56	* Dr. Mike Lano, pro wrestling photojournalist, who will go so far as to take up a managerial position if it can get him close enough to a subject that interests him.
57	* Stephy in the World Wrestling League. He was nearly choked out by Thunder of La Artilleria Pesada after he was startled by Stephy seemingly stalking him. Later his effort to get the story on La Rabia led to him being inducted into the group.
58	* Lenny Leonard is the most consistent example across the WWN Family(main members FIP, EVOLVE, Shine, as well as predecessors Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}), once lamenting that the locker room was a lot less interesting when it wasn't as full of wrestlers hostile to him. Others include Steve Corino (as a wrestler, he can be expected to take care of himself but it still takes stones to confront 3/4ths of Wrestling/BulletClub alone), and Amber Gertner, but the best examples may be Rob Naylor and Kid Cadet, for whom running from aggravated wrestlers was a RunningGag. But no matter how many times they were chased off they never gave up.
59	[[/folder]]
60
61	[[folder:Radio]]
62	* ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' paid only lip-service to Clark Kent's "mild-mannered" description--especially in the early years, when Superman operated mostly as an urban legend, and it was Clark Kent who investigated all the stories. (This portrayal of Clark as a confident, assertive journalist carried over into the George Reeves television series.) When UsefulNotes/WorldWarII broke out, Clark even became an agent of the federal government on the side.
63	** Jimmy Olsen (see comics) was originally created for the radio show.
64	* ''Radio/BellinghamTerror'' David Phillips starts out as one of these in 1935 Bellingham but quickly devolves to ShellShockedVeteran due to Bellingham being LovecraftCountry.
65	* Karla Kolumna from ''Benjamin Blümchen'', a UsefulNotes/GermanLanguage audio drama series for kids.
66	* Dan Holliday was an intrepid reporter for the Star-Times, before becoming an intrepid freelance writer in the RadioDrama ''Box 13''.
67	* ''Frontier Gentleman'' featured J.B. Kendall, correspondent for the London Times, roaming TheWildWest.
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70	[[folder:Roleplay]]
71	* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
72	** Rhys is a high school variant, being an aspiring writer who works for the school's newspaper. He first gets involved with the plot when he sights the other students acting suspiciously and follows along behind them, determined to get to the bottom of events relating to his newfound superpowers.
73	** Minor character Esther Byun is an investigative journalist who first appears in the story while looking into the disappearances of some of the superpowered kids. Her prying into affairs isn't well-received by Hyeon, who calls her a parasite and ignores her plea for information.
74	* Agent Scott in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'' showed up after the battle to interview its participants, probably arriving sometime before it was over given he was there to report the moment victory was announced. Parodies humorously later on when Lotta Brix, J. Theano, and Seymour Brickstein from official LEGO Canon also show up, and the four reporters end up getting distracted bickering over who gets the story.
75	* Several of the players in ''Roleplay/ScaryNewsOutOfTokyo3'' are reporters of this sort. They're often stuck in the area when an imminent attack is announced -- or they just don't leave, as they see no point in running. Much of what is known by the players about the characters from [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the founding work]] derives from interviews conducted by them.
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78	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
79	* Literally the name of a Human class in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' what they lack in combat skills, they more than make up for in [[GuileHero cunning and resourcefulness]]. Their job in an adventuring party will likely be [[TheFace the face]] or TheTeamBenefactor seeing as how they have boosts to their Persona and Funding skills.
80	* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' the Rocket News service is entirely made up of brave men and women willing to travel the stars for the biggest scoop.
81	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. The reporters ("snoops") described in the ''Shadowbeat'' sourcebook. They have to worry about being harassed, attacked or even killed by {{Mega Corp}}s and various magical threats (spells, monsters, etc.) they're reporting on.
82	* ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}'' supplement ''Tooniversal Tour Guide''
83	** "Atomic Monster Theater" setting. Scoop Mellin is an overweight, balding rat in a cheap suit who always gets his story. He's often present when space aliens or {{Kaiju}} attack.
84	** "Toonpunk 2020 1/2" setting. [[Creator/WilliamGibson Gibson Williams]] is an investigative reporter for the Daily Midnight News Network who will do whatever it takes to get a scoop.
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87	[[folder:Theatre]]
88	* In ''Theatre/AccidentalDeathOfAnAnarchist'', Feletti is determined to get to the bottom of what happened to the Anarchist and will let nothing stand in her way. In one possible ending of the play, this goes quite badly for her.
89	* ''The Front Page'' ([[AdaptationDisplacement See Film]]).
90	* The members of the Tectonic Theater Project in ''Theatre/TheLaramieProject'' have a lot of this in them, and [[BasedOnATrueStory they also count as a]] RealLife example.
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93	[[folder:Toys]]
94	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has several journalist characters which feature in various stories, most prominently working for the KentBrockmanNews {{Show\|WithinAShow}} "[[http://transcomics.deviantart.com/favourites/38977170 Around Cybertron]]" which spans [[ComicBook/TransformersTransTech several]] [[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass different]] [[ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor universes]].
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97	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
98	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney:''
99	** Spark Brushel in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''.
100	** Lotta Hart from the ''VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright\|Trilogy}}'' set, though she's more of an amateur photographer than an intrepid reporter. She works for an occult magazine, later changing to celebrity photography after getting too scared.
101	** A freelance vigilante example is the Yatagarasu from ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', a master thief who specializes in stealing evidence of corrupt business dealings and sending them to the media rather than the police.
102	** ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations 2]]'' gives us Nicole Swift, who manages to get herself wrapped up in [[spoiler:a staged assassination attempt on the president of Zheng Fa, set up by said president and his bodyguard Knightley to raise his popularity ratings. Nicole is promised an interview with the president in exchange for pretending to be a sniper, never knowing she was actually meant to take the fall for the murder of uninvolved bodyguard Ethan Rooke, which was orchestrated by Knightley himself because he was jealous of Rooke's superior status]]. Unsurprisingly given the way she acts and talks, Nicole was mentored by Lotta Hart, and the two meet up towards the end of the game to investigate another "scoop" together.
103	** Raiten Menimemo from ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney''.
104	* Averted in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework''. The reporters mentioned in the story usually keep themselves to whichever tidbits about the protagonist and/or the Barbarossa incident leak out online.
105	* Tamie Nogi in ''VisualNovel/PrincessEvangile'', who is determined to cover [[TheProtagonist Masaya's]] stay in Vincennes despite him being pursued by Yakuza thugs. It comes to a head when she comes face-to-face with the thugs in question, one of whom is wielding a loaded handgun and threatening to shoot Masaya in public.
106	* ''VisualNovel/ShaleHillSecrets'': The protagonist's roommate, Leah, is studying journalism at Shale Hill University [[spoiler:while also conducting illicit and dangerous investigations on the side]].
107	* ''Spirit Hunter'' series:
108	** Christie from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMark'', a former news anchor whose journalistic knowledge provides useful clues for the protagonist.
109	** Ban from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' is a journalist that hounds Seiji for his ties to the Yakuza, and his effectiveness is shown when he's easily able to put together a profile on Akira, Seiji's friend. Despite the antagonism, he assists the protagonists by sharing what he knows of the supernatural incidents, and later becomes one of Akira's companions.
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112	[[folder:Webcomics]]
113	* [[http://cat-nine.net/comic/busted/ Rallidae]], a vlogger/future news reporter from ''Webcomic/CatNine'' seems to like getting in on the action together with her brother.
114	* The online incarnation of ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' reinvents the character "Keyhole Kate" as an intrepid reporter for the school paper. (In the print version, she was just nosy.)
115	* Roger from ''Webcomic/GenocideMan'' is an intrepid ''blogger'', with a camera implanted in the sinus below his eye. He's following Jacob Doe, a rogue SuperSoldier with a suitcase full of genetically modified ebola, for the sake of a story.
116	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
117	** Carol, big sister of [[StraightMan Sarah]]. Her motto is "I ''grew up'' in Moperville. ''Weird stuff'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-01-20 happens here]]". In the last appearance, she has a blitz interview on "superhero sighting" opened with ''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-18 low-altitude drop from a helicopter]]''. Merely to reach her witnesses quickly and have her team's copter free to chase "Cheerleadra" at the same time.
118	** Earlier, Elliot's imaginary alter-ego [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2010-01-29 "Super Elliot"]] has this as his day job.
119	* H. Javin Aubergine, of ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'', is a professional muckraker, the government of Tethys' PR officer, and a good-natured pebble in everyone's shoe. He works as the 'loyal opposition' more often than not, because even an enlightened despotism needs an opposing voice. On the one occasion where he's installed as governor regent of the planet, [[http://www.waywardmartian.com/harbourmaster8/043-166.html he stages a protest]] against ''himself'' on general principles. But all that's perfectly normal for a reporter, until Tal's grandfather notes that Javin has been banned in, on and from ''several planets'' in the three Terran centuries he's been around.
120	-->'''Javin:''' I suppose I haven't done up a good 'the despot is a no-fun jerk' editorial in a while.
121	* In ''Webcomic/TheLettersOfTheDevil'', Vida Olivier is a tabloid reporter following up on an anonymous letter implicating a political couple in the shady deaths of their late spouses.
122	* Golden, from ''Webcomic/M9Girls'' fancies herself one, snooping into the M9 Girls' lab in order to find their secret. She ends up being captured by the BigBad goonies.
123	* In ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'' Claud Southend initially seems to be just some nosy reporter from Luna. But then he goes to great lengths, even risking his own life, to uncover a conspiracy against Nicole.
124	[[/folder]]
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126	[[folder:Web Original]]
127	* ''Website/{{CRACKED}}'' columnists frequently end up trying to get stories this way. Insane, blatantly untrue stories.
128	* ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'' has a whole family of them: Ulysses, Jesse, and Diane Grant.
129	* Shin in ''Literature/SailorNothing'', who idolizes Hunter S. Thompson. She is obsessed with bringing out the Truth, and [[MeaningfulName her name even means]] "truth" in Japanese.
130	* ''Literature/ShadowUnit'': Solomon Todd (known as Duke to his colleagues) was this before he joined the FBI. It makes him really, ''really'' good at following paper trails and getting stories out of traumatised witnesses. [[spoiler:It's probably not where he learnt the skills that make him the team's executioner, though.]]
131	* Celeste [=McLachlan=] of the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderblog]] ''[[http://countingitup.blogspot.com/ Make It Count]]''. Bad journalistic choices are a little bit [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that she's still very young.
132	[[/folder]]
133
134	[[folder:Web Videos]]
135	* In ''WebVideo/CodeMENT'', Camera 3 owns this trope.
136	-->'''Detard:''' Hey, where the hell is Camera 3?\
137	'''Assistant:''' He said he was gonna get some "action shots".\
138	'[cut to collapsing building]''\
139	'''Camera 3 Man:''' ''[falling to his death]'' THIS-IS-GONNA-BE-THE-'''BEST-SHOT-''EVER!!'''''\
140	'''Gavin:''' I suppose I haven't done up a good 'the despot is a no-fun jerk' editorial in a while.
141	* In ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', two people, a photographer and a reporter (taking notes) stay while Dr. Horrible is [[spoiler:shooting up the homeless shelter they are in]]. The reporter is in the front row and does not bat an eye when Dr. Horrible comes over to correct her spelling, only leaning to show him her notebook. He has not put the gun down.
142	* Very much inverted in the LetsPlay/HatFilms series ''Hat Pack'', in which Colin (a made-up character played by Trott) doesn't so much as leave the bath when he's meant to be working.
143	* Patricia Neilson in ''WebVideo/KateModern''. Unfortunately, the other characters see her as a nuisance and seldom help her investigation.
144	* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': At the start of the series, Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself. In doing so, she starts off claiming to have been a pirate all her life with a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory, but ends up BecomingTheMask the longer she spends there, making friends and hunting treasure along the way. [[spoiler:In her epilogue, after retiring from piracy, [[EarnYourHappyEnding her risk ultimately pays off]] and wins her the headline titles she's always dreamed of.]]
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147	[[folder:Real Life]]
148	* Quite a few RealLife reporters have fitted this mold for at least some of their careers. Nellie Bly, for example. And [[Film/AllThePresidentsMen Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein]] would hardly have gotten their stories on Watergate if they hadn't been a bit intrepid. Bly's exploits in search of the story include traveling [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays around the world in ]]'''[[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays 72 days]]''' in 1889 and infiltrating a lunatic asylum as a patient in 1887.
149	* William Burke "Skeets" Miller of the Louisville, KY "The Courier-Journal" received a Pulitzer Prize for his first-hand reporting on the rescue efforts for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins Floyd Collins]]. And by "first-hand", we mean that Miller actively participated in the rescue attempts, and turned down an offer of $50,000 (roughly a ''million'' dollars in 2023 currency) to relate his story on the Chataqua Lecture circuit.
150	* The late, great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (AKA Raoul Duke), founder of a branch of journalism called "Gonzo", who not only went out to find the stories, he fucking MADE them, and included himself, the line between journalism and fiction was delightfully and psychedelically blended. Played particularly straight when he was sent to cover a motorcycle race and a police convention, and ended up with Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas. He rode with the Hell's Angels for several months, got [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown stomped]] by them after it became clear he wasn't a pet publicist who would lead them to a lot of money, and, despite his famous temper, ''still'' wrote a fair and compassionate, though not blindly sympathetic, account of his time with them. Another moment was his (satirical) claim that, judging from appearances, Edmund Muskie was on the South American hallucinogenic Ibogaine during the '72 election campaign. It got picked up and reported as real news, apparently by news organizations who hadn't gotten the word about Hunter yet... This actually caused some problems for Muskie, or at least an uncomfortable question or two from the press.
151	* In Australia, two rival "current-affairs" shows, ''TodayTonight'' and ''ACurrentAffair'' practice "foot-in-the-door" investigative "journalism". The war between TT and ACA can get quite nasty. Though the actual quality of the stories on both shows is up for debate.
152	-->"These shows prey on the sensationalism that stupid people lap up, with stories of supermarkets conspiring to jack up their prices, of dodgy car parks where your car will be sold into white slavery and which celebrity diet is really the most effective."
153	-->-- Blog/CriticalDave: [[http://daveandhiscriticisms.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/today-tonight-where-principles-dont-matter-and-pandering-to-the-idiot-masses-is-order-of-the-day/ "Today Tonight: Where principles don't matter and pandering to the idiot masses is order of the day"]]
154	%% * "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley Doctor Livingstone, I presume?]]"
155	* The entire notion of intrepid vs. ethics has become hotly contested within the journalistic field, as noted by [[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/press/vanities/fallows.html this article]] from an old episode of Frontline
156	* Herb Morrison of WLS, who recorded the iconic reportage of UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg disaster, is arguably an example of this. He was clearly shocked and frightened, but stood his ground and kept right on recording until he was finally overcome by the smoke and heat and forced to seek shelter. Minutes later, he was outside again, interviewing survivors. This is what broadcasters do. A gigantic gasbag explodes into hellish flame over a thousand feet into the sky directly above our heads -- ''and we stand there and tell you about it.''
157	* Creator/{{ITV}} football commentator John Helm turned up to a routine TV engagement on the 11th May 1985, to report on a Third Division match between Bradford City and Lincoln City, a football game a long way away from the glamour of Manchester United or Chelsea. He was, in fact, practically the only journalist in the ground, so low was the sporting or news significance of the fixture. He and his camera team then recorded the horror of the stadium fire that erupted unexpectedly and was responsible for the deaths of fifty-six people and were the only news presence there for a long time.
158	* Herodotus, while called the "father of history" sometimes seems rather like an intrepid reporter as well.
159	* The Miami Herald's Julie Brown was instrumental in the July 2019 arrest of serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In 2008, Epstein was given a sweetheart, illegal [[note]] Under federal law, victims of violent crimes are supposed to be notified if their attacker is going to take a deal. A Bush Jr appointed judge ruled the agreement illegal in February 2019. [[/note]] Federal non-prosecution deal. He was given a 13-month sentence in state prison in which he only spent evenings and Sundays in prison. Alexander Acosta, who would later become Trump's Labor Secretary, was the US Attorney in Miami at the time and didn't give the grand jury a 53-page assessment the FBI had made on Epstein. The deal caught Brown's attention again after Acosta became Labor Secretary in early 2017. After the Weinstein story broke that Fall, she was able to get more of Epstein's victims to talk to her. She has identified roughly 80 women altogether and found out that the FBI knew 36 of them were underage in the report Acosta had buried. She spent almost all of 2018 identifying more victims and publishing more stories about how the deal just didn't add up. In early July, Epstein was arrested in New Jersey on federal sex trafficking charges after his plane from France landed. The head of the New York City's FBI office and the US Attorney for Manhattan both said that they had been helped by excellent investigative journalism without mentioning Brown by name. Epstein hanged himself in his prison cell a few weeks later so no criminal proceedings against him will continue but there are a few civil cases going on against his estate.
160	* Veronica Guerin trained as an accountant before becoming one of UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}'s most important organized crime reporters, using her knowledge of accounting to trace drug lords' monetary assets. She received multiple death threats before her work got her assassinated in 1996, but her death led to a clampdown and the formation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. She was played in a biopic by Creator/CateBlanchett.
161	* Greg Palast, investigative reporter for [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Series/{{Newsnight}} and author. Among other things, he has done a great deal of investigation into the circumstances by which UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush became President of the United States. He's made several documentaries and written several books about this. He's also investigated skulduggery in the Exxon Valdez disaster and the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station project.
162	* Egon Erwin Kisch, whom you may call a RealLife [[TheTrickster trickster]]. As he said about himself: "I'm a German. I'm a Czech. I'm a Jew. I'm a Communist. I'm from a good family. I'm a [[UsefulNotes/TheStudentenverbindung student corps member]]. One of those always helps me out." He was actually called "Der rasende Reporter" ("The Furious/Speedy Reporter").
163	* At no point in his long career was (now-retired) war correspondent Joe Galloway ever shy about rushing headlong into danger for the sake of a story. Most famous was his conduct at the Battle of Ia Drang during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, which was dramatized in the film ''Film/WeWereSoldiers'' (see above). He voluntarily accompanied U.S. Air Cavalry soldiers into a highly active combat zone where they were cut off from ground reinforcements, getting so close to the fighting that at one point it became necessary for him to keep an M-16 on his lap for self-defense, and taking considerable time out from his photography in order to drag wounded men to safety. Some of his photographs of the fighting became the first images many Americans had ever seen of the war in Vietnam. Later in life, his affinity for soldiers led him to become [[http://original.antiwar.com/author/galloway/ ferociously critical]] of shortsighted politicians who sacrificed soldiers' lives for what he believed were frivolous and idiotic reasons.
164	* Rolling Stone's Evan Wright, famous for his chronicles of being embedded with the USMC's 1st Recon Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which would eventually burgeon into the book and miniseries Series/GenerationKill.
165	** [[https://youtu.be/CZvWl67Icn8/ In an interview]] years later, Corporal Josh Ray Person recalled how Wright stuck around well into the invasion, giving him more cred with the Marines around him; many embedded journalists, at least according to Person, will leave after one firefight.
166	* Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh. Among other things, Hersh uncovered the true story of the My Lai massacre, the Reagan Administration's PSYOPS campaign against the Soviet Union that led to the shooting down of Korean Air 007, and a number of hard-hitting articles criticizing the Iraq War.
167	* During the investigation of the murders by UsefulNotes/CharlesManson, a group of TV reporters did some experiments to find evidence that the police were too incompetent to find. For instance, they changed clothes in a car that was proceeding from one of the murder sites to see if they could end up in the likely place where the murderers ditched them. It turns out they found the dump site right away and got the police to search the area while they covered the activity for their news show.
168	* William Howard Russell, 19th Century war correspondent for the ''Times'' of London, might be the TropeCodifier. His coverage of the UsefulNotes/CrimeanWar exposed deficiencies in the British army's leadership and logistics systems, causing massive reforms after the war. He also covered the Indian Mutiny, UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, and numerous other conflicts.
169	* John Pilger. Amongst his many achievements, he is probably most renowned for his report from Pol Pot's Kampuchea (Cambodia) in October 1979. "Year Zero" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpZz5I_ylois]] one of the most powerful, disturbing -- and bravest -- pieces of reporting ever, and its contents horrified the world: this was the first hint the public had of what later became known as TheKillingFields.
170	* CNN reporter and news anchor Creator/AndersonCooper has a rather nerve-wracking habit of running off to war and/or disaster areas in order to report from the middle of the action. He won a Peabody for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina (in which he was nearly decapitated by a flying street sign), got punched repeatedly on the streets of Cairo during the Arab Spring, and has reported live and on location from nearly every major war zone of the last thirty years. In 2011 he became part of the news when he rescued a young boy from a riot.
171	* We have two intrepid documentary filmmakers to thank for ''[[Film/NineEleven 9/11]]'', whom upon seeing a major disaster was affecting New York City, kept following the firefighters they were filming, giving us the priceless only footage from inside the World Trade Center on 9/11. Many intrepid reporters covered the burning towers. It's actually quite a miracle that only one intrepid reporter actually died covering it - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Biggart Bill Biggart]]. The other reporter to die as a result of 9/11 was Thomas Pecorelli, a freelance Photojournalist who, unfortunately, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, which kicked the whole event off, so he likely didn't even know just how big a story he was caught up in.
172	* More of an Intrepid Meteorologist, as he's just reporting on the weather and not uncovering conspiracies or anything, but given that he tends to report on the worst weather in the world from ''inside it'', there are good reasons that one should always endeavour to be where [[Creator/TheWeatherChannel Jim Cantore]] is not.
173	* James Foley, who was beheaded by ISIS while covering the Syria Civil War in 2014.
174	* Santiago Pavlovic is a famous UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}an and very intrepid reporter. Although [[EyeScream he lost an eye when he was a child]], [[HandicappedBadass he became one of the most famous reporters and a mainstay in the Chilean TV channel TVN]]. In 1984, Pavlovic created ''Informe Especial''[[note]](Spanish for "Special Report")[[/note]], an investigation program where he and his team reported [[LongRunners and still report]] diverse controversial themes, which include coverage of wars (Gulf War, Balkan Wars, Iraq & Afghanistan Wars, the Ukraine Conflict), give info about lethal diseases (AIDS, Malaria), unveiling public scandals and even revealing the horrors of UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet's dictatorship between 1973 and 1990. Because of his EyepatchOfPower, his experience covering wars and in general his badassery, there's a MemeticMutation where Pavlovic [[https://k42.kn3.net/taringa/2/2/4/2/3/8/60/wasterbull/453.jpg is]] [[http://orig06.deviantart.net/1fae/f/2015/197/5/3/5389165fa7e9047022ed0b4cbd2598a6-d91mcyk.png compared]] [[http://pre01.deviantart.net/44f8/th/pre/i/2008/161/8/0/world_needs_only_one_big_boss_by_sir_ryken.jpg with]] [[http://orig11.deviantart.net/dffe/f/2007/225/e/b/big_boss_is_back_by_sir_ryken.jpg Big]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPysJp4WUAIbK-e.png Boss]] from ''VideoGame/MetalGear''. And for an extension, also various of his ex-companions in the time they were in ''Informe Especial'': Rafael Cavada, Alipio Vera and Amaro Gomez-Pablos (the latter eventually became TV anchorman of the channel between 2004 and 2015).
175	* Richard Engel, Creator/{{NBC}} News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and perhaps the greatest example of this in the 21st century.
176	-->'''[[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]]''': [''opening a minutes-long spiel on just how awesome Engel is''] Richard Engel is NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent, and forgive me for saying so, but he is better at being a foreign correspondent than anybody else in this business in this country. He is the best of his generation. You can drop Richard Engel anywhere in the world, and he will intrepidly hunt down the most important, most newsworthy thing that is happening there. And when the most important news in the world is happening in the kind of place you are not supposed to drop a foreign correspondent, he is the kind of guy who has been known to get himself there anyway in order to get the story.
177	* Creator/MelchiorWankowicz was a war correspondent during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, known both for his DoorStopper account of the Battle of Monte Cassino and for ducking under the enemy fire in order to write it.
178	* Creator/ErnestHemingway squarely fit this category during the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, being among the last journalists to leave the country after covering the Battle of the Ebro, the last stand of the Republican forces.
179	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kemp_(writer) Peter Kemp]] was a GentlemanAdventurer who wrote a trilogy about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War and WWII before spending the rest of his life covering revolutions across the world.
180	* Mstyslav Chernov stayed twenty days in the besieged city of Mariupol during the early phase of the large scale UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} in February-March 2022 as the city was being cut off, surrounded and progressively destroyed by Russian forces, witnessing first-hand the indiscriminate shelling of civilians and their everyday suffering, at very high risk for his life on several occasions. The result became the documentary ''Film/TwentyDaysInMariupol''.
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