This Just In! Index of tropes relating to news spotted at local 7-11! Film at 11.
News Tropes:
Real-life info:
- Advertising Disguised as News
- Alphabet News Network
- B-Roll
- B-Roll Rebus
- Breaking News Interruption: Real-life examples of TV broadcasts getting interrupted or pre-empted for a piece of breaking news.
- Chekhov's News
- Coincidental Broadcast: A news broadcast conveniently warns or informs the character of something.
- Confused Bystander Interview
- Could This Happen to You?
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: A news report fails to get its information right so badly that people knowledgeable about the subject will immediately know that the information is wrong.
- Crawl: Text scrolling at the bottom of the screen to reveal news not being currently talked about by the anchors.
- Current Events Blog: Online news sites in blog format.
- Da Editor
- Dateline
- Deadline News: A news anchor dies on the air, often killed by whatever disaster they were reporting.
- Delusions of Local Grandeur
- Emergency Broadcast
- Endangering News Broadcast
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
- Film at 11
- Foreign Correspondent
- Gonzo Journalism
- Human-Interest Story
- If It Bleeds, It Leads
- Ignored Vital News Reports
- Immoral Journalist: A sleazy journalist who has no qualms with screwing over other people to get their news pieces published (including defamatory fake news).
- Information Wants to Be Free
- Intrepid Reporter
- Kent Brockman News: An in-universe TV news show which appears to report on some plot-relevant events.
- Learned from the News
- Local Angle
- Lurid Tales of Doom
- Media Scaremongering
- Media Scrum
- Missing White Woman Syndrome
- News Broadcast
- Newscaster Cameo
- News Monopoly
- Newspaper Backstory
- News Parody
- Newsreel
- Old Media Playing Catch-Up
- Only in America
- Only in Florida: News reports of bizarre incidents happening in Florida.
- Paparazzi: Photographers who make a living by taking photos of celebrities having their privacy invaded.
- Photoshop Filter of Evil
- Political Cartoons: Print cartoons and comics, often associated with newspaper editorials, which satirically comment on current events.
- Pompous Political Pundit
- Practical Voice-Over
- Press Hat
- Prime Time News
- Quote Mine
- Scandalgate: Scandals given names ending with "-gate" in reference to the Watergate scandal.
- School Newspaper Newshound
- Self Promotion Disguised As News
- Shallow News Site Satire
- Smarmy Host
- Spinning Paper: A spinning newspaper shows up and stops to reveal a headline relevant to what's happening in the plot.
- Strawman News Media
- Tagalong Reporter
- Talk Show
- This Just In!
- Voice of the Resistance
- Vox Pops
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
- We Interrupt This Program: A program gets interrupted for a piece of breaking news.
- Witty Banter
- Worst News Judgment Ever: An unimportant news story somehow becomes the front page header.
- Yet Another Baby Panda
