This Just In! Index of tropes relating to news spotted at local 7-11! Film at 11.
News Tropes:
Real-life info:
- Advertising Disguised as News: A news piece which is actually part of a thinly-veiled marketing campaign for some sort of product.
- Self-Promotion Disguised As News: TV news advertises another show that airs on the same channel.
- Alphabet News Network: TV news channels with acronym names (usually containing "NN" for "News Network").
- Are We Getting This?: A nearby news reporter or filming crew tries to videotape an unexpected, extraordinary event.
- Breaking News Interruption: Real-life examples of TV broadcasts getting interrupted or pre-empted for a piece of breaking news.
- B-Roll: Illustrative footage inserted into real-time broadcasts that use Linear-Editing systems.
- B-Roll Rebus: Putting a short B-Roll clip on loop.
- Chekhov's News: An in-universe news story, the subject of which will soon become more directly relevant to the plot.
- Coincidental Broadcast: A news broadcast conveniently warns or informs the character of something.
- Confused Bystander Interview
- Could This Happen to You?
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: A news report fails to get its information right so badly that people knowledgeable about the subject will immediately know that the information is wrong.
- Crawl: Text scrolling at the bottom of the screen to reveal news not being currently talked about by the anchors.
- Current Events Blog: Online news sites in blog format.
- Da Editor: The chief editor of a newspaper.
- The Daily Misinformer: A disreputable news source that serves as an obstacle in the plot.
- Dateline: The location, date, and sometimes the source of a news story.
- Deadline News: A journalist gets killed or otherwise harmed while reporting live news, often by whatever disaster they're talking about.
- Delusions of Local Grandeur: Newsreaders believe they are local celebrities due to their jobs.
- Emergency Broadcast: A TV broadcast which suddenly appears to warn of news regarding an ongoing threat to public safety.
- Endangering News Broadcast
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
- Fake Film Intro: A work begins with fictional footage of some sort, such as a news report.
- Film at 11
- Friend in the Press: A journalist who is a close ally of the detective.
- Foreign Correspondent: A journalist works in another country besides their own.
- Going for the Big Scoop: If the journalist actively goes into danger in order to get the news.
- Gonzo Journalism
- Helpless Observer: Characters can only watch the news, unable to intervene.
- Human-Interest Story
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: News about death and violence are guaranteed to rise to the top of the headlines.
- Ignored Vital News Reports
- Immoral Journalist: A sleazy, dishonest journalist who has no qualms with screwing over other people to get their news pieces published (such as by writing defamatory fake news).
- Paparazzi: Photographers who make a living by taking photos of celebrities having their privacy invaded, and then selling them to tabloid news media.
- Information Wants to Be Free
- Intrepid Reporter: An adventurous journalist who actively searches for news stories to get a personal insight on them.
- Tagalong Reporter: A journalist who follows the hero around to report on their adventures.
- Kent Brockman News: An in-universe TV news show which appears to report on some plot-relevant events.
- Learned from the News
- Local Angle
- Lurid Tales of Doom
- Media Scaremongering: The news media knows that publishing negative stories about how everything is going to shit will attract attention from readers and viewers.
- Media Scrum
- Missing White Woman Syndrome
- News Broadcast
- Newscaster Cameo
- News Monopoly
- Newspaper Backstory: News articles used as exposition for in-universe lore.
- News Parody: Satirical publications which typically feature fictional news stories.
- Clickbait Gag: Spoofing online news articles or videos with sensationalized headlines.
- Shallow News Site Satire: A parody of alternative news blog sites like BuzzFeed.
- Newsreel: Before the rise of television, it was common to see news reports in the format of films played at movie theaters.
- Old Media Playing Catch-Up: Releasing outside the net takes longer.
- Only in America
- Only in Florida: News reports of bizarre incidents happening in Florida.
- Photoshop Filter of Evil
- Political Cartoons: Print cartoons and comic strips, often associated with newspaper editorials, which satirically comment on current events.
- Pompous Political Pundit: A very smug commentator who is the host of (or a frequent guest on) a very politically biased news program or talk show.
- Practical Voice-Over
- Press Hat
- Prime Time News
- Punny Headlines: Incorporating puns in a news headline to make it stand out.
- Quote Mine
- Scandalgate: News media often gives political scandals names ending with the suffix "-gate", in reference to the Watergate scandal.
- School Newspaper Newshound
- Selective Stupidity: Cherry-picking a survey's responses to make a certain demographic look stupid.
- Smarmy Host: A vain slimeball of a show's host.
- Spinning Paper: A spinning newspaper shows up and stops to reveal a headline relevant to what's happening in the plot.
- Strawman News Media: Journalism is portrayed as a corrupt industry that indoctrinates people with biased propaganda which serves particular corporate/political interests.
- Tabloid Melodrama
- Talk Show: An unscripted TV show in which the host invites guests to talk about various subjects, including (but not limited to) current events and political news.
- This Just In!
- Trashy True Crime
- Voice of the Resistance
- Vox Pops
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
- We Interrupt This Program: A program gets interrupted for a piece of breaking news.
- Witty Banter
- World News Montage: A montage of news bulletins from around the world, all reporting on the same thing.
- Worst News Judgment Ever: An unimportant news story somehow becomes the front-page header.
- Yet Another Baby Panda
