Intrepid Reporters in Western Animation.
- The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin: While Grundo lacks a dedicated news network, the character Louie the Grunge acts like this. He travels all over the land in a peddle powered helicopter filming anything potentially newsworthy for his boss the Wizard of Grundo's oracle business.
- Summer Gleason in Batman: The Animated Series sometimes takes on this role. Lois Lane in the spinoff Superman animated series is the more traditional example.
- Bojack Horseman's downfall began when Paige Sinclair got a tip on Sarah Lynn's death and decided to investigate, right before Quitting to Get Married, no less.
- In the Captain Caveman shorts on The Flintstone Comedy Show, Betty and Wilma were reporters for "The Daily Granite" who'd wind up accompanying Captain Caveman on his adventures.
- In Central Park, Paige Hunter wants to be this type of reporter instead of writing fluff piece for her newspaper. She ends up getting what she wants when she's trying to figure out why the Park League's contract to maintain Central Park has been frozen by city hall.
- Danny Phantom played with this for one episode with topnotch reporter Harriet Chin. When she finds ghosts to be true, she enthusiastically scoops up the story and sends it to the paper she works on; she's promptly fired. In a later episode, she got a job as a news lady—though by that point ghosts have become public awareness.
- Gargoyles had Travis Marshall, in both cartoon and comic continuities.
- The Get Along Gang: One of the episodes in this short-lived animated series from 1984 was "Nose For News," which is actually a satire against the intrepid reporter. Each of the main protagonists tries his or her hand at filming their own news story to win a shot at being the local TV station's new Kids' Reporter. However, attempts to do feature reporting, investigative journalism, sports reporting, a restaurant review (which does nothing but piss off the owner) and a weather report (a sudden storm comes just as Portia Porcupine is taping a report about a beautiful day) all fall flat. Meanwhile, series antagonist Catchum Crocodile and his sidekick Leland Lizard scheme to capture the job by staging a Damsel in Distress runaway balloon incident, which sets up the finale: When the attempt to stage the incident goes horribly wrong and Catchum and Leland are trapped atop a high water tower, the Get Along Gang members are forced to rescue them; meanwhile, Braker Turtle has happened on the scene and, told to watch the video camera, films the rescue ... and he ends up getting the job of Kids' Reporter. When the Get Along Gang members watch the news and most of them complain about not getting the job, leader Montgomery Moose puts it into perspective: In essence: "We tried to create the news, Braker reported what actually happened." To wit: The moral comes off as investigative journalism and so forth is bad.
- The Big Bad Wolf in Hoodwinked!, real name Wolf W. Wolf, is one of these. The character is heavily based on Irwin Fletcher, mentioned above.
- Kaeloo: Stumpy's sister Poucave is one of these, and she will go to any length possible to attain information for her articles.
- The Legend of Korra: Shiro Shinobi, the announcer, was one before he took his announcing job.
- Liberty's Kids features two of these as main characters - 14-year-old James and 15-year-old Sarah.
- Alya in Miraculous Ladybug is Marinette's best friend and an aspiring journalist who runs the Ladyblog, a site dedicated to Paris's superheroes (unaware, of course, that her BFF is Ladybug). She never hesitates to run headlong into danger to catch footage of Monster of the Week attacks for her blog; in "The Pharaoh", she doesn't stop streaming even when the titular villain grabs her with the intent of using her as a human sacrifice!
- More prone to this than Alya is Nadja Chamack, a local reporter and television personality who has outright interviewed villains and ended up brainwashed by them frequently.
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): Casey Calderon is a variation in that she somewhat recklessly follows unusual events happening in the LES to scoop content for her profile.
- Ninjago: Gayle Gossip, a side character, is most often seen in news broadcasts regarding the latest threat to Ninjago. She will willingly head towards danger, no matter how much her cameraman, Vinny Folson, complains.
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has Dynamite Watkins, a super-powered news anchor for Action 52 News.
- The Quack Pack version of Daisy Duck was a globe-trotting reporter for the TV series What in the World?.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man has both the Daily Bugle's publisher, J. Jonah Jameson, and its editor-in-chief Joe Robertson had aspects of this. As did a number of the paper's journalists, including photographer Peter Parker alias Spider-Man. Also the Daily Bugle's Ned Lee, who's investigating the secret identities of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin.
- Lois Lane naturally in Superman: The Animated Series. Her introduction revolves around her discovery of a wide-spread gun smuggling ring.
- In SWAT Kats, "Kat's Eye News" reporter Ann Gora sometimes got herself and her camera crew in danger while following the Swat Kats' adventures.
- April O'Neil was turned into one of these for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. The change remained for the Archie adaptation of the cartoon, and, to a lesser extent, the movies.
- Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) makes Mary Jane into this trope, though she isn't in most other incarnations.
