Intrepid Reporters in Anime and Manga.
- Goh "Rocky" Mutsugi from Area 88: Photojournalist on the battlefields of North Africa. Shot down while out taking pictures, rescued by a Bedouin Rescue Service but forced to fight the chief, wins the fight with a Barehanded Blade Block, then goes out with a bang by ramming a tank with a Jeep when the camp is attacked. Oh, and survived all that, though he did lose a hand.
- Black Magic M-66. Sybil faces extreme danger to get the story and even saves the scientist's granddaughter from the title robot.
- Okamura from Blood+, going so far as to follow the main characters around the world for his story.
- Aoi Hino from Cannon God Exaxxion. Lampshaded by the fact that the other, more level-headed members of the news team she's on think she's nuts. There's also her little sister Akane, who is determined to follow in her big sister's footsteps, but every attempt she makes to do so ends in disaster. Also subverts this trope by having another recurring news team who are much more realistic & down to Earth... who happen to be space aliens.
- Diethard Reid from Code Geass starts out as a reporter getting information about Zero into the public, and then joins the Black Knights as apparently its PR officer.
- The Funimation dub of Crayon Shin-chan has Bitzi, Mitzi's sister. She was a photographer who was often sent to third-world hell holes filled with political and military turmoil like Africa and Burma. Her experiences led to her being addicted to drugs. Her favorite in particular is Brown-Brown, a mixture of cocaine and gunpowder.
- Figure 17 Tsubasa & Hikaru features a reporter who stumbles across a dying meadow (caused by the Monster of the Week) and begins to investigate further.
- Aya Stanford from Future GPX Cyber Formula SIN, a photographer for a sports magazine. She finds herself at the center of the rivalry between Bleed Kaga and Hayato Kazami and the mysterious car Ogre.
- Hello! Sandybell: Carl Ronwood is the owner of a newspaper company. Both Sandybell and Alec aspire to be this, so they compete against one another (albeit; mostly one sided on Alec's part) to become great reporters. When they expose a drug organization in Greece, things go haywire as angry members try to harm them to get Revenge.
- Magic User's Club features two reporters investigating the magical powers of the main character.
- Subverted twice in Monster. When a journalist tries to help Dr. Tenma stop a murder, he ends up becoming one of the victims. Later on, we meet another journalist who seems to fit the bill... until we learn that his press pass is phony and that he's something else entirely.
- In One Piece, a mysterious reporter called Absa has been exposing all sorts of juicy tidbits to the world since the Paramount War, such as the alliance between Eustace Kidd, Scratchmen Apoo, and Basil Hawkins. As a reader guessed in an SBS, it's Absalome, the invisible pervert from Thriller Bark.
- In Remote, Ayaki's fiance Shingo quits his job to become a reporter. His idea of working is to use his girlfriend's presence at a particularly grisly murder scene to get a scoop. She is not best pleased.
- Yoko of RideBack tries to be this, ignoring evacuation orders to try and get a scoop about the "Rideback Girl".
- Bernard Chatelet from The Rose of Versailles, after he gets some Character Development. He was a Well-Intentioned Extremist with shades of Psycho for Hire beforehand, but his encounters with Oscar and André (and how it's because of him that André loses an eye) make him re-think his ways.
- Scoop Hunter Tamon, an obscure one-shot manga by Ishigaki Yuuki, has the titular character Kyosuke Tamon, an ex-war journalist-turned-freelance reporter and photographer who infiltrates drug dens, mansions of Corrupt Politicians, and investigates terrorist plots to get the latest scoop. He even has an Arch-Enemy in the final chapter, a rival Immoral Journalist who tries tarnishing Tamon's reputation.
- Tatsumi Saiga from Speed Grapher, a Retired Badass who was an ex-war photographer and now works as a freelancer for tabloids (much to his dismay) in a corrupt version of Japan. An interesting case, since it has been weaponized: thanks to his Euphoric powers, the focus of his pictures explode. This later is used to rescue Kagura Tennozu and eventually stop the Tennozu Group that controls Japan.
- Tokyo Ghoul:
- One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization V, and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others' involvement... but as punishment, they forced Yoshimura to kill Ukina to protect their secrets. He did so in order to buy the time to send their Half-Human Hybrid child to safety, leaving Eto with her mother's diary and all the secrets it contained.
- Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like hack the CCG's databases or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
- Zombie Land Saga: Arata Okoba starts investigating Franchouchou after getting a familiar feeling from "Number 4" aka the supposedly deceased Junko Konno. The Stinger of the season shows him fully aware of not only her looking identical to the long-dead Junko Konno, but "Number 3's" and "Number 6's" resemblances to the more recently deceased Ai Mizuno and Lily Hoshikawa. When he returns in Episode 6 of Revenge, he tries to dig up more dirt on the group by following Tae around. He succeeds in figuring out something is up after Sakura accidentally knocks off Tae's head. It's followed up on next episode where he very much realizes they're all dead.
- Zombie Powder gives us the most unorthodox intrepid reporter in fiction, ever, in the form of Wolfgangina. Period. How unorthodox, you ask? Her tripod is a cannon. No, really.
