I've actually been thinking of trying the same thing, that is writing a story based on T2K. Oddly enough, it's based on a combat journalist also, but a military one, not civilian. I'm going to try to do it along the lines of a journal or diary- dated entries describing the days events. I'm still puting together the "party". I had them together but lost one, and had to change an infantryman to a journalist.
Feel free to use my name (Wes Wood) for anything. I'm normally a nice guy, but I can just as easily be an @$$hole, so any character named after me can be good or bad. Sometimes known as a smartass