In that case, if that's true, its "The Chronicle"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242733/
Plot Summary for
"The Chronicle" (2001)
Tucker Burns is a qualifier reporter who can't get a job. He applies for a job at the World Chronicle, where they are delighted to have an over-qualified (by their standards!) reporter on staff. It turns out that all the stories the Chronicle reports are true, but written as tabloid articles so that the public can slowly get acclimated to such things. Aided by photographer Wes and alien abductee/reporter Grace, and backed by his mysterious boss Daniel Stern, Tucker investigates, ghosts, aliens, and other supernatural phenomena.
and therefore the person from Coupling is:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812133/
I stumbled across the show by accident, looking at another suspect to what fits the first description you gave in the first post, that being Freaky Links. Seems they shared a cast member between the two shows. That was a lucky coincidence!