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[[File:AprilONeil hot scoop 4504.jpg|link=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|frame|right|As depicted by [http://channandeller.deviantart.com/gallery/28835768#/d1y8bj4 channandeller]]]
{{quote|''"Stop the press! Who is ''that''?''"|'''[[The Joker]]''', on photo-journalist Vicki Vale|''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''
Perhaps it's their ability to uncover the truth about evil goings-on. Perhaps it's their brilliant research skills. More likely, it's a desire to do an exposé on them, finding out just what is under that lovely blouse.
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A popular character in action movies and cop shows, as it's a good way to introduce a love interest who has a plausible reason for following the hero into danger. Sometimes overlaps with [[Action Girl]], though it predates the latter trope's popularity by a good many decades, as it was more acceptable for a woman to be a nosy Boswell than a butt-kicking Battle Babe.
Common characteristics of attractive female journalists are [[Plucky Girl|an abundance of "
Can overlap with [[School Newspaper Newshound]] if it's set in a school. See also [[Intrepid Reporter]] and [[Going for the Big Scoop]]... which is not about dating the reporter, but their tendency to seek out danger.
While generally good(ish), a minority of these characters turn out to be true villains. Generally this sort overlaps with [[The Vamp]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Kazumi Asakura from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
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* Lois Lane from ''[[Superman]]'', who may be one of the earliest examples of the trope.
* Betty Brant from ''[[Spider-Man]]''. Also Norah Winters, who is very, ''very'' aware that she falls into this category.
* Vicky Vale, especially in the 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie, where she is the main female lead ''and'' is played by none other than [[Kim Basinger]]. The Joker becomes obsessed with her.
* Iris West and Linda Park from ''[[Flash|The Flash]]''.
* Sundra Peale from ''[[
* Seccotine from [[Spirou and Fantasio]].
* Filthy assistants on ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' are reporters in training. Nothing about Yelena, but Shannon certainly qualifies because she is, well, a former stripper.
== Film ==
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* Lexie in ''[[Leatherheads]]'', who almost immediately becomes the object of a love triangle with Dodge and Carter.
* Gale Weathers in ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]''.
* The 1989 film ''Brenda Starr'' starring [[Brooke Shields]] as the intrepid reporter of comic strip fame.
* Besides Lois Lane in ''[[Superman Returns]]'', the Australian reporter played by Peta Wilson.
* ''[[Idiocracy]]'' takes this to the logical extreme, with the anchors on [[Fox News Channel]] being a hot chick in a bikini and [[Walking Shirtless Scene|a male hunk with no shirt on]].
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* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Susan Rodriguez.
* The ''[[Discworld]]'''s Sacharissa Cripslock grows out of her prim-and-properness into one of these... although she's actually only moderately attractive, but is stunningly beautiful ''when considered over several centuries''.
** That is, she's got [[What Beautiful Eyes!|eyes]] that would've been regarded as ideal two hundred years ago, when the standards of beauty were different in some details; a chin that would've qualified her as a sex symbol three centuries ago; a nose that could've [[The Trojan War|started a war]] a thousand years in the past.... The [[Buxom Is Better|curves of her figure]], on the other hand, "never go out of fashion at all and are perfectly at home in any century" -- and her severe dress tries but fails to [[Power Limiter|tone these down]].
* Mary Frances Mulrooney from ''[[The Takers]]'', a modern [[Two Fisted Tale]] by Jerry Ahern.
* Kate Manzoni from ''The Light of Other Days''.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* The ''[[Brenda Starr, Reporter]]'' strip from the 1940s put this trope on center stage.
== Webcomics ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Nellie Brie in ''[[An American Tail]]: The Mystery of the Night Monster''.
* April O'Neil from the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, as well as the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|live-action films]]. Even a [[Baleful Polymorph]] (she was turned into a [[Cat Girl]] in one episode and a [[Fish Person|Fish Girl]] in another) [[Cute Monster Girl|couldn't ruin her Fanservice nature]]. In the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|original comics]] and [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|the second animated series]] she was a [[Hot Scientist]] instead.
** April's reputation as a Hot Scoop is lampshaded in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'':
{{quote|'''Male Reporter:''' What are you wearing??
'''April:''' Standard reporter-issue yellow jumpsuit.
'''Second Male Reporter:''' Dude, let her wear it!}}
* Believe it or not, Daisy Duck becomes one of these in the ''[[Quack Pack]]'' TV series.
* Grace Ryan from ''[[Frisky Dingo]]''.
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* On ''[[Word Girl]],'' the title character has a crush on [[School Newspaper Newshound|Todd "Scoops" Ming]]. Of course, fifth-grade boys aren't exactly the norm for this trope.
* An early ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode gave Meg a crush on the local anchor Tom Tucker.
== Video Games ==
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* Jane Valderama from ''[[Saints Row]] 2''.
* Rochelle from ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]''.
* Kate Lockwell in ''[[
* Rebecca Chang from ''[[Dead Rising 2]]''. Most of her introductory cutscenes consist of her waving her butt and tits in the hero's face while going on about [[Going for the Big Scoop]]. This may or may not have multiple meanings.
* Scarlet Lake in ''[[Alpha Protocol]]''.
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** Latin American/Italian news shows and daytime TV take this trope and dials it [[Up to Eleven]].
** Satirized by ''[[The Daily Show]]'' [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-16-2007/news-i-d-like-to-f--k here].
** There exist [http://james-a-watkins.hubpages.com/hub/Women-of-Fox-News entire] [http://www.foxnewsgirls.com/ websites] devoted to the [[Fox News Channel]]'s "newsbabes." [https://web.archive.org/web/20151126022024/http://www.lardbiscuit.com/lard/lardyawards2011.html
* [[The BBC|BBC]] economics editor [[wikipedia:Stephanie Flanders|Stephanie]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309014603/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/ Flanders] is quite the [[Christmas Cake]]. Of course, it helps that she's a member of a famous family of entertainers noted for their good looks (she accounts Olivia "[[House (TV series)|Thirteen]]" Wilde as a half-cousin).
** She's also the daughter of [[Flanders and Swann|Michael Flanders]]; the looks are from her mother's side.
* [http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/cast/11/danni/ Danni Boatwright]. Being a former beauty queen helps. She also won ''[[Survivor]]: Guatemala''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130508173847/http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/2007/12/girls-girls-girls.html Here's] a whole slew of them.
* Photojournalist [http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/margaret-bourke-white/ Margaret Bourke-White]. So hot Candace Bergen and Farrah Fawcett portrayed her in films.
* [[Paz Vega]] majored in journalism before pursuing a career in acting.
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