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{{cleanup|Any example that reads along the lines of "a reporter shows up and is killed" needs to be moved to [[Dead Line News]], leaving this trope for the dangerous situations that don't kill the reporter.}}
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If it's played for comedy, it may be that his boss hates him and is trying to get him killed, or it may be that the reporter is too dumb to realize the danger. In these cases, he usually survives. Played for drama, the reporter is "the best reporter we've got!", and is usually aware of how dangerous it is. This type is also much more likely to end up dead in fiction. A truly [[Memetic Badass|legendary]] reporter is even more likely to get bumped off, for [[The Worf Effect|various reasons]].
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It's a trope that was [[Truth in Television|lifted straight from real-life]]; long before there was television news, reporters were going into (or staying in) dangerous situations in order to get the story.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'': The reporters investigating the mysterious disappearance of Ginger Town's inhabitants ; they get to suffer the same fate, i.e. being sucked out and absorbed by [[Big Bad|Cell]].
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== Film ==
* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' opens with a reporter in the middle of a battle. He is [[Killed In Action]] a moment later.
* ''[[Volcano]]'' has this in one part, with a news reporter standing right up against the line of barriers that are barely containing the volcanic lava.
* One of the first casualties in ''[[Resident Evil: Degeneration]]'' is
* ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' features a reporter giving up-to-the-minute reports on the
* In ''[[Cloverfield]]'', one female reporter was seen on a television screen reporting near the monster. What happened to her was... not explicitly revealed.
* In the 1998 American [[Godzilla]] movie, there are around three or four unnamed or unimportant reporters who buzz around Godzilla during his rampage.
* In ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'', the reporters on the beach who are covering the "meteor shower" are among the first to be gunned down when the aliens emerge from the surf.
* The conspiracy nut radio show host in ''[[2012]]'' is reporting live from Yellowstone as the supervolcano goes ker-blooie.
* In ''[[Predator]] 2'', a female reporter is near the shoot-out war zone between the police and Colombian drug dealers.
{{quote|'''Reporter:''' ''(some bullets shot near her)'' Oh, [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] this, [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|I'm outta here]]!}}
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== Literature ==
* In the book ''Swim to Me'' by Betsy Carter, Delores (the weathergirl who dresses up as a mermaid to do her reports
* In [[Dave Barry]]'s novel ''[[Tricky Business]]'', the local Miami news station sends a reporter out to cover a tropical storm. She stands in water near downed power lines. [[It Gets Worse]] when the station starts sending vehicles out, finally culminating in a helicopter crash. {{spoiler|Ultimately, nine of the station's reporters are dead, representing 100% of the people killed by the storm.}} Both a [[Parody]] and an [[Exaggerated Trope]].
* In ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', a journalist named Henderson appears early in the novel to [[Going for the Big Scoop|investigate the fallen Martian cylinder.]] He dies by [[Death Ray]] not too much later, making this trope [[Older Than Television]].
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