Scoop! Journalists in Fiction: Jurassic Park

The Inky Path

Journalists appear in fiction in many guises and play many roles. Sometimes they provide central characters, often they intrude on the action, their attentions as unwelcome as they often are in real life. Scoop! gathers together these appearances under a variety of themes, some amusing, some trivial, some giving an insight into how the Press works and how it is seen to impact on our society. If you have favourite representations of journalists in European fiction or insights into ways they are portrayed, please email Scoop!

Although it's a job many of them end up doing, not many starry-eyed recruits join a newspaper with a burning ambition to be a sub-editor (or any other form of desk-bound executive).

Here's Annika Bengtzon when her reporting career looks doomed in Studio 69...

Maybe that's where you end up in this job, she thought. Maybe it's just as well I'm out before I've become like those guys, a bunch of addled old hypocrites with brains that can only think in 72point Bodoni.

And here's former boyfriend and news photographer Howard talking to Exit, Orange and Red's Constance Amory...