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Released in 1987, James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News follows the lives of three broadcast journalists: Jane Craig, a producer who struggles to find a balance between her work and her personal life; Aaron Altman, a reporter who aims to have on-camera exposure in the network; and Tom Grunick, a local news anchorman who lacks experience. Broadcast News explores the various personal problems that permeate these journalists’ lives, whilst they grapple with other work-related issues that come their way. The film has been mostly credited with its accurate portrayal of a standard television newsroom. After discussing films that explored the environment of a newspaper journalist’s newsroom, such as All The President’s Men and The Paper , Broadcast News immediately makes clear that a television newsroom is a different environment. The television newsroom is hectic, and tensions are running high as producers and journalists do their best to stick to their deadlines. Though its portrayal...

The Paper follows 24 hours in the newsroom of a fictional tabloid, The New York Sun ; and one of its editors, Henry Hackett. The movie immediately makes the viewer aware of the various financial and personal issues that the company and its staff is confronted with: the owner of The New York Sun is facing bankruptcy, which leads to massive layoffs in order to keep the tabloid afloat. Hackett, meanwhile, is facing issues with his wife after she complains that he keeps putting his work before their relationship. Within this 24-hour span, The New York Sun encounters a story that involves the murder of two businessmen and the arrest of two African-American teenagers who were apparently seen fleeing from the scene of the crime. Hackett and his reporters, however, obtain information that suggests otherwise-- the police arrested the two teenagers due to political pressure and that they had nothing to do with the murders that occurred. The immediate issue that the movie presents is that ...

Watergate was a political scandal that began in June 17, 1972, after five men broke into the Watergate complex in the United States. The investigation that followed later revealed the various abuses of power by the Nixon administration in order to cover up their involvement and keep the president in power. Alan J. Pakula’s All The President’s Men explored the investigation of the Watergate scandal, which was carried out by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The film followed the various issues that the two journalists encountered while investigating the case. Woodward and Bernstein, for one, had a hard time reaching out to key people involved in the scandal because the Nixon administration is determined to keep everything under wraps. The pair immediately faced issues with gathering information from informants that are deemed important, as they are unwilling to talk to the two journalists about what they know and shut them out instead. Due to these challenges, the pair had to ...