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* Lenny Leonard is the most consistent example across the WWN Family(main members FIP, EVOLVE, Shine, as well as predecessors Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}), once lamenting that the locker room was a lot less interesting when it wasn't as full of wrestlers hostile to him. Others include Steve Corino(as a wrestler, he can be expected to take care of himself but it still takes stones to confront 3/4ths of Wrestling/BulletClub alone), and Amber Gertner, but the best examples may be Rob Naylor and Kid Cadet, for whom running from aggravated wrestlers was a RunningGag. But no matter how many times they were chased off they never gave up.

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': At the start of the series, Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself. In doing so, she starts off claiming to have been a pirate all her life with a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory, but ends up BecomingTheMask the longer she spends there, making friends and hunting treasure along the way. [[spoiler:In her epilogue, after retiring from piracy, her risk ultimately pays off and wins her the headline titles she's always dreamed of.]]

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': At the start of the series, Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself. In doing so, she starts off claiming to have been a pirate all her life with a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory, but ends up BecomingTheMask the longer she spends there, making friends and hunting treasure along the way.

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': At the start of the series, Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself. In doing so, she starts off claiming to have been a pirate all her life with a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory, [[spoiler:but ends up BecomingTheMask the longer she spends there, making friends and hunting treasure along the way.]]

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': At the start of the series, Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself. [[spoiler:She ends up BecomingTheMask the longer she spends there, making friends and hunting treasure along the way.]]

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': At the start of the series, Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself.

* John Pilger. Amongst his many achievements, he is probably most renowned for his report from Pol Pot's Kampuchea (Cambodia) in October 1979. "Year Zero" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpZz5I_ylois]] one of the most powerful, disturbing - and bravest - pieces of reporting ever, and its contents horrified the world: this was the first hint the public had of what later became known as TheKillingFields.

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself.

Expect a lot of speeches about "the Truth", "Freedom of the Press" and "the People have a right to know." Despite this, they're typically troublemakers. After all, the lure of that [[GoingForTheBigScoop big scoop]] can lead to rushing into danger, trying to expose [[{{Masquerade}} secrets the protagonists would rather not have public,]] or even [[TwistingTheWords fudging the facts]] to make a juicier story.

* [[IntrepidReporter/LiveActionFilms Films - Live-Action]]

* ''LetsPlay/PiratesSMP'': Eloise has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself.

* William Burke "Skeets" Miller of the Louisville, KY "The Courier-Journal" received a Pulitzer Prize for his first-hand reporting on the rescue efforts for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins Floyd Collins]]. And by "first-hand", we mean that Miller himself actively participated in the rescue attempts, and turned down an offer of $50,000 (roughly a ''million'' dollars in 2023 currency) to relate his story on the Chataqua Lecture circuit.

* William Burke "Skeets" Miller of the Louisville, KY "The Courier-Journal" received a Pulitzer Prize for his first-hand reporting on the rescue efforts for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins Floyd Collins]], a caver who'd become trapped. Notably, Miller himself actively participated in the rescue attempts, and turned down an offer of $50,000 (roughly a ''million'' dollars in 2023 currency) to relate his story on the Chataqua Lecture circuit.

* Creator/{{CNN}} reporter and news anchor Creator/AndersonCooper has a rather nerve-wracking habit of running off to war and/or disaster areas in order to report from the middle of the action. He won a Peabody for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina (in which he was nearly decapitated by a flying street sign), got punched repeatedly on the streets of Cairo during the Arab Spring, and has reported live and on location from nearly every major war zone of the last thirty years. In 2011 he became part of the news when he rescued a young boy from a riot.