Journalist

**Spoiler Warning:** *Plot details, ending details, or both are in the text which follows.*

CHARACTER

## Biographical information

### Also known as

The Journalist
Reporter Lady

### Businesses

News anchor
Journalist

## Game information

### Motion Capture

Melle Powers

“*I can't trust anyone, least of all the police, and time's running out. I've got to get the one piece of evidence that will expose Starkweather without a shadow of doubt. Footage and testimony of a man who was executed by the state five hours ago...*”
―The Journalist

The **Journalist** is a character in the *Manhunt* series who appears as the deuteragonist of *Manhunt*. She is a journalist and news anchor with the Carcer City News, working to expose Lionel Starkweather's involvement in the snuff film industry.

## History

### Background

She is a young journalist who lives at Central, Carcer City. By 2003, she had worked at a radio station for two years, before working at a TV station in Carcer City for three years.

### Events of *Manhunt*

By the time of the events of *Manhunt*, she has been investigating Starkweather's snuff ring operation for months. and somehow discovered James Earl Cash's execution was fake in order to use him on another of Starkweather's snuff films.

She started searching for clues of Cash's location intending to have him as a witness to accuse Lionel Starkweather. Somehow the Journalist discovered Cash's location after he was captured by Ramirez and the Wardogs in an apartment complex near the Darkwoods Penitentiary, where she rescued him in her red Blista Compact.

The Journalist informs him Starkweather is on to her at this point, as she knows too much about the snuff film ring. She needs to get the evidence from her apartment and leave town before she is caught by him to become one of his “extras”. Cash urges her to drive to her apartment in Central before they leave, unaware that they were watched. The corrupt Carcer City Police chief Gary Schaffer is paid by Starkweather to send some of his cops to the Journalist's apartment in order to ambush them. However, Cash and the Journalist manages to reach the apartment alive, with Cash eliminating every corrupt cop guarding the place.

Upon entering her apartment room, she collects the evidence she needed. Cash tells her to take the evidence out of town with her. The Journalist is confused on why he won't be escorting her any further and Cash explains that he will hunt down Starkweather by himself to “thank him for his second chance.” However, he tells her that he still relies on her as backup for taking down Starkweather in case she doesn't survive.

As soon as Cash arrives at Starkweather's Estate in Wapona Hills, the Journalist is seen outside the mansion with her news team, followed by Carcer City News helicopters, covering the story on Starkweather and the allegations of him being in a snuff film ring, which he refuses to comment on according to her. She then reports that his future in the movie industry is uncertain in the midst of this controversy before she signs off.

Later, the Journalist is covering a story in Carcer City News' studio about the death of Lionel Starkweather in the hands of Cash, although not revealing his name and referring to him as an "unknown assailant". She reports that Starkweather and saveral of his hired bodyguards were found dead. She adds that police investigators have concluded from the current evidence that the deaths were a vendetta with an unknown perpetrator and have also found proof of a snuff film ring being run from the estate. Lastly, she reports that this ilicit operation is linked to CCPD police chief Gary Schaffer, whose lawyer states that he has pleaded not guilty of the accusations against him.

### After *Manhunt*

The official *Manhunt* website features a recorded audio of a mental hospital orderly interviewing the Journalist, who is said to have been caught wandering the streets in tears with a knife in her hand, a few weeks after exposing Starkweather's snuff film ring on the news channel.

## Scene Appearances

***Manhunt***
* Born Again (Cutscene only)
* Divided They Fall (Cutscene only)
* Press Coverage
* Border Patrol (Cutscene only)
* Deliverance (Cutscene only)

## Trivia

* Although the Journalist's name is never revealed, it is known that it starts with "Rob", as she tries to say it before getting cut off in the intro cutscene for Border Patrol.
* The journalist drives a red Blista Compact, a vehicle from various *Grand Theft Auto* games.