Bad Reporter is a semi-weekly editorial cartoon in comic strip format written and illustrated by Don Asmussen that ran from 2003 to 2021.

The remaining three panels were spoofs (parodies) of newspaper articles containing a mock-up of a prominent newspaper masthead (such as the Chronicle or The New York Times), a headline, a simulated photograph, and a short text introduction or lead.

The humor was generally topical and absurdist, describing one local or national current event in the terms and context of another.

For example, a panel from one 2007 strip describes a notorious brawl between students at a local Catholic high school and a visiting Yale University a cappella glee club in terms usually used with respect to the Iraq War (the 2003 United States military action in Iraq), with local celebrities the Brown Twins humorously portrayed as "warlords" who want the college singer "occupiers" out "right now.

"[2] Bad Reporter concluded on April 30, 2021, approximately eighth months before Asmussen's death.