Scope Note:

Fictional work centered around the world of reporters and news, with deadlines, breaking stories, competition among their colleagues, feuding with their editor, and yellow journalism and questions of journalistic ethics. Such work is typically involved with such activities as searching for a "scoop," exposing crime and corruption, and obsessively pursuing a story, often to the point of destroying a person's reputation. Includes stories of journalists in the print, newsreel, and broadcast mediums. Feature examples: ABSENCE OF MALICE; ACE IN THE HOLE / THE BIG CARNIVAL; ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (with Mystery; Political); BROADCAST NEWS (with Show business; Romance); THE FRONT PAGE; HENRY ALDRICH, EDITOR (with Family; Youth); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (with Screwball comedy); NETWORK (with Show business); TOO HOT TO HANDLE. TV examples: LOU GRANT; NEWSRADIO (with Situation comedy).

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