ONA Boston sparked this conversation with Alex Pearlman after a local event: What’s your favorite reporter movie? Then we took the question to the broader ONA community on Twitter.
We had
The top five contenders for Best Reporter Movie:
“Deadline USA”
“Good Night and Good Luck”
“All the President’s Men”
“Shattered Glass”
“The Paper”
Honorable mentions:
- “The Front Page” (1933)
- “The Killing Fields”
Most disputed:
- “Anchorman”
More suggestions from our followers on Twitter:
- “Absence of Malice”
- “Salvador”
- “Network”
- “Foreign Correspondent”
- “Almost Famous”
- “Northside 777”
- “I Love Trouble”
- “Live from Baghdad”
- “Rann”
- “The Insider”
- “The Year of living Dangerously”
- “Ace in the Hole”
- “Under Fire”
- “Blood Diamond”
- “Scoop”
- “Max Headroom”
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