Scoops

Todd "Scoops" Ming is a supporting character on the series WordGirl voiced by Ryan Raddatz. He is a 10-year-old boy who works as a news reporter for the school newspaper The Daily Rag. He is the first year in 1969 debut one of Becky's best friends and is also her love interest, but is very blind sighted to her affections. His dream is to work for The Big City Times, and he was able to cover a story on Cree Summer in the episode "Bonkers for Bingo" after being hired by the paper's director, Woodword Bernstein. However, he still has a long way to go in order to be the famous ace reporter he wants to be. Even Becky agrees (sometimes, and rather reluctantly) that his articles can be rather dull.

He is desperate to figure out WordGirl's secret identity and is constantly on the scene for any evidence. At one point, Todd claimed WordGirl is much older than she looks by "reporter's instinct," and also that he had ruled out everyone he knew as being WordGirl. However, in the episode "Vocab Bee", he began to deduce from an abundance of obvious clues that Becky was WordGirl. Becky managed to throw him off by purposefully defining a simple word incorrectly at the Vocab Bee.

The oblivious Todd has a high opinion of himself and does not hesitate to take credit for anything he might possibly have had to do with, such as the time he retold the story of Romeo and Juliet during the episode Becky and the Bard". During said episode, it was also revealed he doesn't know how to take stage direction correctly, as he read all his lines in addition to the direction. Because of this, he managed to be casted as the Garden Wall.

It is also seen that he shares a special love interest for Violet Heaslip as seen in "Cherish Is the Word".