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* A non-fatal example in ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}''. We're introduced to the reporter Kate Gelato at the beginning of Housepets, where she reports on rumors of people being transformed into animals. Near the end of the arc, after being caught in the middle of a city-wide ForcedTransformation, she reports on the incident while freshly transformed into a cat. Other than some size issues while conducting interviews, she seems largely unfazed by this.

* Both [[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds film]] [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds adaptations]] of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' have the line "Once they begin to move, no more news comes out of that area."

* In ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', a journalist named Henderson appears early in the novel to [[GoingForTheBigScoop investigate the fallen Martian cylinder.]] He dies by DeathRay not too much later. Henderson, possibly the earliest example of this trope in fiction, is also the TropeCodifier, so much so that his character was carried over in Orson Welles' 1938 radio show and the 1953 version, if not the 2005 version. The book also ''subverts'' the trope: the narrator himself is also a journalist, though he does come close to death on more than a few occasions.

* In the radio version of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', Carl Phillips, reporting live from Grover's Mill, is [[KilledMidSentence burned to death mid-sentence]] by a Martian heat ray. Likewise, the reporter in New York narrates the advance of the Martian tripods until he is killed by their poison gas. The broadcast goes to dead air, then one voice comes on, repeatedly asking if anyone is out there. ''Film/IndependenceDay'' paid homage to this as part of its advertising campaign.
* ''Radio/ThePeoriaPlague'' is a radio drama produced by WHUN (named WSWT in modern day) in Peoria, Illinois, in 1972. Recorded in the same defictionalized style as the 1938 ''War Of the Worlds'', it follows a fictional radio host reporting on strange outbursts of manic violence throughout Peoria, which eventually turns out to be a ZombieApocalypse (implied to be the result of aliens) that quickly spirals out of control. The broadcast ends with the host and his technician being the only people left in the station, and the host realizing that the reason the plague spread so fast wasn't because the zombies were contagious, but as a result of WaterSourceTampering... just as he'd taken a drink of water.

A subtrope of ApocalypticLog and IgnoredVitalNewsReports. Sometimes appears in KentBrockmanNews. Not related to SpinningPaper. See also TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou. See also RedShirtReporter for when a death happens on the scene instead of in the newsroom, and SpectatorCasualty, where a horrible fate happens to the audience instead of a reporter.

* The made-for-TV movie ''Without Warning'' is depicted as a series of news reports. The final scene as Earth's population centres are summarily [[EarthShatteringKaboom bombarded with asteroids]] sees the anchorman quoting Shakespeare until an asteroid hits nearby and [[InferredHolocaust the picture cuts to static]].

-->'''News Presenter:''' Carl from Andville writes, "Where's Series/DoctorWho when you need him?" In fiction, I imagine! ...yes, indeed, because we're running out of time both on the program and just generally.

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* The music video for the Music/BarenakedLadies song "Odds Are" takes the form of a news bulletin as the anchors and field reporter [[ThePollyanna cheerfully ]]cover a series of catastrophic events including a [[ColonyDrop meteor impact]], an AlienInvasion, [[GaiasVengeance global warming]], a [[ClimacticVolcanoBackdrop volcano]] that [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs erupts dinosaurs]], a ZombieApocalypse, and finally a [[NukeEm nuclear war]]. By the time the bomb drops, the weatherman is a ZombieInfectee, the newsdesk is on fire, and the studio backdrop has collapsed.

-->'''Nappa:''' I HATE THE '''''MEDIAAAAAAA!'''''

-->'''Rex''': And I never won an Emmy!

-->'''Rex''': No! Not my toupeé! No!\\

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* A scene in the movie Film/VanishingOnSeventhStreet shows the girlfriend of Luke vanishing on air when the lights go out. It's thanks to this and a single radio message about light that Luke even manages to survive as long as he does.

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': In the Waluigi Arc, Jeeves goes out reporting on the T-Pose zombie apocalypse. He even tries interviewing one of the zombies, and prompty gets attacked and infected.

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* The people involved in creating ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' have an in-joke of creating minor characters of a certain name (based on a real life friend and colleague) who gets incredibly gruesome and often ridiculous deaths shortly after being introduced. In one of the 1632 books, he's an IntrepidReporter in an era that ''really'' doesn't like people snooping into the secrets of high society and powerful conspiracies. Guess what happens...?

** Another example in the same news clip, though with no reporter and instead implied death of the cameraman. The camera shows the Queen of Blades walking down a street, she then snaps her head to the side and looks right at the it. The camera goes cuts to static immediately after.

* ''Film/Dracula2000''. A cameraman is filming TV reporter Valerie Sharpe when suddenly her neck snaps taunt and blood appears on her neck. The cameraman lowers the camera to see Dracula has her in his grip; he then kills the cameraman and adds Valerie to his VampiresHarem.

* ''Film/Dracula2000''. A cameraman is filming TV reporter Valerie Sharpe when suddenly her neck snaps taunt and blood appears on her neck. The cameraman lowers the camera to see Dracula has her in his grip; he then kills the cameraman and adds Valerie to his VampireHarem.

* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' opens with a reporter in the middle of a battle. He is KilledInAction a moment later.

* Turned UpToEleven in ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' where The Drake, Slick, and Ivan invade a news broadcast on Slick's incineration of a bus full of schoolchildren, kill the newscaster by stabbing him through the chest with an ice skate, brandish the charred corpse of a child at the camera, and order the townspeople to kill the homeless.

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': In the Waluigi Arc, Jeeves goes out reporting on the T-Pose zombie apocalypse. He even tries [[UpToEleven interviewing one of the zombies,]] and prompty gets attacked and infected.

* In the ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' story-arc "ComicBook/UltronUnlimited", the villainous robot laid waste to a small European country, and reporters on the scene don't go unnoticed. "Oh look, a human camera crew..." Needless to say, the screen goes to static pretty soon.

* In ''Comicbook/Marvel2099: Apocalypse'', the news station NYFAX broadcast a live feed of SHIELD killing superheroes on the orders of the new PresidentEvil. SHIELD then raid the station and kill everyone there.

* WesternAnimation/JohnnyExpress: When the title character is trampling the tiny planet, a broadcast is cut off to static and we see a family watching frozen in fear.

* WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie has this happen to Rex [[MeaningfulName Pester]] twice, though he survives both times.

* In ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'', a female reporter is covering live a shoot-out between the police and Colombian drug dealers.

* The people involved in creating Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo have an in-joke of creating minor characters of a certain name (based on a real life friend and colleague) who gets incredibly gruesome and often ridiculous deaths shortly after being introduced. In one of the 1632 books, he's an IntrepidReporter in an era that ''really'' doesn't like people snooping into the secrets of high society and powerful conspiracies. Guess what happens...?

* Creator/TelltaleGames' adaption of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' has an instance of this during Episode 1, if the player decides to help fix Carley's radio, which is tuned to the station she works for. Gunshots and breaking glass can be heard in the background as the reporter is told they have to go off the air, before the transmission cuts off.

* The first trailer for ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' begins with a dog exploring a decrepit house, before flashing back to how the place looked in the moments before the bombs fell. In the flashback, the radio is on, and the newsreader shakily breaks the news of confirmed nuclear detonations before dropping the franchise's iconic TagLine:

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* The ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Failsafe" features a Keystone City news reporter (Kid Flash's Aunt Iris of all people) becoming a victim of the alien invasion she's covering in the middle of her report. It comes with the nice touch of her coworker shouting at her to watch out before the camera cuts out. Thankfully, the whole episode is taking place in the characters' heads.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' involves a non-fatal attack. During a TV report on a group of lion men turning people into more of their kind, the reporter is turned into a lion himself during the broadcast.

* During the course of the TV series ''Series/{{Life}}'' a recurring bit was a documentary filmmaker doing interviews with people about Charlie Crewes (the protagonist). In the last episode, the unseen filmmaker interviews the BigBad, who explains his motivations and then kills the filmmaker.

* The ''WebAnimation/{{Piemations}} short "Bird Town News" has birds reporting on a crisis of bird houses falling off of their trees. The punchline has [[spoiler:The news station itself falling from its tree right on camera behind the reporter as they finish the story, causing the signal to cut off.]]