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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 (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]].
** 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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