Here I am attending the opening Press conference in just a few hours at the TCM Festival in Hollywood so why not throw together a gallery of movie posters featuring news stories and intrepid reporters.

How about a reporter that I loved catching on the late show in reruns whom I looked up to as a kid just to wet you’re appetite.

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Bogie fights the good fight in this 1952 story of a newspaper that gets lost in his titles of classics that is worth looking into.

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Broderick Crawford at the city news desk caught up in murder.

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Classic Douglas fighting his way back to the top at any cost.

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Reporter Don looking for a story. Even if it costs him his sanity. “At’a boy Luther!”

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The early days of reporting made for a hell of a Sam Fuller film.

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Gable gets the story and maybe Colbert as well. Maybe.

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I wonder if I might see this pair of newshounds at the press conference.

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Anytime Paul Newman is in the news is an article worth reading.

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Darren and I have to get going if we’re going to make the press conference. Now we just need to find Joe our cameraman.

THE PUBLIC EYE, Joe Pesci, 1992, (c) Universal