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Who is out in 70 mile per hour winds, lashing rains and certain death? It's the Redshirt Reporter. When people need to know about how to get out of a flaming building, who is running through the building? The Redshirt Reporter. They are often seen wearing a rain slicker, amid flying debris, [[Going for ~~The~~ Big Scoop]]. Often ends up on [[Dead Line News]].

Who is out in 70 mile per hour winds, lashing rains and certain death? It's the Redshirt Reporter. When people need to know about how to get out of a flaming building, who is running through the building? The Redshirt Reporter. They are often seen wearing a rain slicker, amid flying debris, [[Going for the Big Scoop]]. Often ends up on [[Dead Line News]].

The Redshirt Reporter is the man (or woman -- a Redshirt Reporter is about as likely to be a woman as a man) who is doing the stand-up, on-the-scene live report from someplace that's so insanely dangerous or unpleasant that anyone with a lick of sense wouldn't be there.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[~~Dragonball~~]]'': 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]].

* ''[[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]].

** Though later on subverted by the reporters covering the Cell Games, as they somehow manage to survive (And fully believe [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Mr. Satan]] saved them).

* A one-off reporter in ''[[~~Death Note (Manga)|~~Death Note]]'' - right after the Second Kira just killed a lot of reporters who disagreed with Kira - deliberately imperils his own life, John Hancock-style.

* A one-off reporter in ''[[Death Note]]'' - right after the Second Kira just killed a lot of reporters who disagreed with Kira - deliberately imperils his own life, John Hancock-style.

== Film ==

* [[Starship Troopers (~~Film~~)|Starship Troopers]] opens with a reporter in the middle of a battle. He is [[Killed In Action]] a moment later.

* [[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 one of these.

* One of the first casualties in [[Resident Evil: Degeneration]] is one of these.

* ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' features a reporter giving up-to-the-minute reports on the tornados rampaging through downtown Los Angeles. He ends up flattened by flying debris, of course.

* 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.

* 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.

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* In the book ''Swim to Me'' by Betsy Carter, Delores (the weathergirl who dresses up as a mermaid to do her reports. She's a professional mermaid/swimmer in shows when not on TV) is sent out specifically to be this girl during a hurricane watch. The drama is upped when she spots a drowning child and drops her mike to rescue him.

* 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]]'', 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]].

* In ''[[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]].

** Henderson, possibly the earliest example of this trope in fiction, is also the [[Trope Codifier]], so much so that his character was carried over in Orson Welles' 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.

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* [[Added Alliterative Appeal|Damien Day]] from [[Drop the Dead Donkey]] likes to ''pretend'' he's in serious danger. [[Parody]] meets [[Exploited Trope]], as he's using the trope to attempt to gain better viewing figures.

* The Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica has a brief scene of Baltar watching the disjointed news reports of the Cylon attack. The 'man on the street reporter' hears the boom, feels the wind, then his feed and the feed from the news studio cut to static.

* The ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' skit "Newsflash" is a parody of this trope: it's based on putting Colin Mochrie in this role -- only he doesn't know what he's reporting on. The skit uses greenscreen technology to run footage he can't see as his "on-the-scene" background. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swmkuwb_hc&feature=related here].

* The ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' skit "Newsflash" is a parody of this trope: it's based on putting Colin Mochrie in this role -- only he doesn't know what he's reporting on. The skit uses greenscreen technology to run footage he can't see as his "on-the-scene" background. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swmkuwb_hc&feature=related here].

* In ''[[~~The Goodies (TV)|~~The Goodies]]'' episode "[[Attack of the ~~Fifty~~ Foot Whatever|Kitten Kong]]", it's played entirely for laughs. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLDaI4yuKNU&NR=1 here, starting at 2:10]

* In ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "[[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Kitten Kong]]", it's played entirely for laughs. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLDaI4yuKNU&NR=1 here, starting at 2:10]

* Parodied on ''[[The Daily Show]]''. In their January 2012 Indecision coverage there is a skit about the upcoming South Carolina primary including an anchor in a windstorm and a female anchor covered in blood screaming about the horrors of the campaign.

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** The GDI reporters oddly avert it though. One of them is in Washington when Philadelphia comes crashing down, the other in Vancouver, mere meters away from Nod forces and right in the attack zone of Vertigo bombers. They both survive.

* In Final Fantasy 7 when the pilar collapses, a reporter can be seen reacting just before the screen goes to static.

* Leading up to the release of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', the game's in-character twitter feed featured a series of live-tweets from Emily Wong, who was effectively the reporter-on-the-scene for {{spoiler|The Reaper Invasion of Earth. Her last tweet indicated that she was mortally wounded and about to [[Taking You ~~With~~ Me|ram a Reaper with her skyvan.]]}}

* Leading up to the release of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', the game's in-character twitter feed featured a series of live-tweets from Emily Wong, who was effectively the reporter-on-the-scene for {{spoiler|The Reaper Invasion of Earth. Her last tweet indicated that she was mortally wounded and about to [[Taking You with Me|ram a Reaper with her skyvan.]]}}

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