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On occasion, a film or TV show will feature a news segment discussing events happening within the show. The fictional scene stars an actual newscaster who delivers that sort of segment in [[Real Life]].
Related to [[Practical Voice Over]], where the voices are frequently recognizable newscasters. Sometimes achieved in [[
[[Sister Trope]] to [[Leno Device]], which uses a talk show or other nonfiction entertainment, rather than a straight news program. Subtrope of [[As Himself]] and [[The Cameo]]. Not to be confused with [[Kent Brockman News]], though it can certainly take that role.
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* [[Chris Matthews]] is the primary newsman in ''[[Man of the Year]]''
* Jules Asner and Steve Kmetko from E! News Daily show up in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', where Jules gets to read a cleaned-up version of Jay's [[Cluster F-Bomb|profanity-laced tirades]] on the air:
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* ''[[It Happened Here]]''. A chilling version occurs in this [[Alternate History]] film about a Nazi-occupied Britain, where veteran wartime BBC radio announcers Alvar Lidell and John Snagge give their voice to fascist propaganda [[
* Woody Allen's "Bananas" had both Roger Grimsby and Howard Cosell making news broadcasts of a particularly idiotic nature.
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* A ''[[Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps]]'' episode, "Dead", had ''North West Tonight'''s Gordon Burns as himself.
* The BBC ''revels'' in this, presumably because the national news is filmed down the hall from a lot of the TV shows, so it's a matter of popping your head round the door.
** Andrew Marr and Louise Minchin have played themselves on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'' respectively. Another BBC newsreader, Huw Edwards, played the Olympic opening commentator in ''Fear Her'', although he was credited for playing the role of the 'Commentator'.
** Reporter Alex MacIntosh appears as himself in the ''Doctor Who'' serial "Day of the Daleks", reporting on the peace conference. And even earlier, Kenneth Kendal in ''The War Machines''.
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** BBC News presenter Richard Baker made some appearances in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. He also appeared in ''[[The Goodies]]'', along with Michael Aspel and others.
** ''[[Yes Minister]]'' borrowed a number of reasonably well known BBC reporters and interviewers (such as Ludovic Kennedy, Sue Lawley, and Nicholas Witchell) to report on the events of the episode (and occasionally to interact with the titular minister - at least once in the talk-show format, but also at least once to conduct a regular journalistic interview).
** This is the main reason ''[[Ghostwatch]]'' managed to fuck with so many viewers
** Aversion: The head of BBC News banned their reporters from working with their [[Panel Game]] ''[[The Bubble]]'', where contestants, having been hidden from the world for a week, have to identify real news stories intertwined with fake ones.
* [[Spike Milligan]] did a sketch where Corbett Woodall read an ordinary-sounding news bulletin while Milligan shouted out the newsreader's inner monologue. (Although Woodall wasn't all that well known at the time.)
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* Several Chicago local newspeople cameoed as themselves during the run of ''[[Early Edition]]''. Most of the time they then ran an "exclusive" story on the behind-the-scenes making-of during that evening's late news.
* On ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', real life Los Angeles anchor John Beard plays himself often, reporting on the Bluth family's problems.
* Howard K. Smith was a well known news reporter from [[World War II]] to the 1970s. He appeared as himself as a newscaster on ''[[V (TV series)|V]]''.
* Australian news reader Edwin Maher appeared on an Australian sketch comedy show (I think it was ''[[The Big Gig]]'' but can't remember for certain){{verify}} announcing that the ABC had been bought by Rupert Murdoch and showing the new ABC logo: three breasts.
* On ''[[Friends]]'', Joey and Chandler adopting the chick and the duck is precipitated by Joey seeing a report by Sue Simmons of WNBC-NY discussing why ''not'' to get a baby chick at Easter.
* Real anchors (and even production graphics of KLAS Las Vegas anchors have been used on the original ''[[CSI]]''.
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* Ukee Washington, of KYW-TV (a [[CBS]] affiliate in [[Philadelphia (useful notes)|Philadelphia]]), occasionally appears on ''[[Cold Case]]'', which is set in Philadelphia.
* The first [[The Cosby Show|Cosby Show]] [[Dream Sequence]] episode "The Day the Spores Landed" begins with a story being read by unseen NBC News reporter John Palmer, who was also working for NBC as the newsreader for the network's morning news program, ''The Today Show''.
* ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'' had Prentiss-McCabe clients interviewed by people like ''BBC Breakfast''{{'}}s Dermot Murnaghan and ''[[Newsnight]]''{{'}}s Kirsty Wark ... but a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of Jeremy Paxman, since they were blackmailing "Jonathan Crossman" to give their client an easy interview.
* ''[[The Thick of It]]'' uses spliced [[Stock Footage]] of Jeremy Paxman and ''Newsnight'' in the special "Rise of the Nutters", and in series three Richard Bacon guest-stars as himself hosting a debate between department ministers on [[The BBC|Radio 5]].
* Bree Walker appeared in this capacity on ''[[Fresh Prince of Bel Air]]''.
* Averted in ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]''. Rather than using stock footage of Walter Cronkite or Jules Bergman, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Emmett Seaborn]] (working for the fictional "NTC" network) was created. This also meant that the same newscaster could be used for every single Apollo mission.
* ''[[Angel]]:'' In the season 4 episode "Awakening" the late Larry McCormick, real-life Los Angeles news anchor, appeared "on-air" as himself.
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