Perante a iminente destruição do seu planeta, Krypton, o renomado cientista Jor-El resolve salvar o seu filho, Kal-El, enviando-o sozinho para o planeta Terra, um mundo mais primitivo, mas onde ele sabe que o filho terá poderes extraordinários e um grande futuro. Criado por um casal de lavradores com o nome Clark Kent, só na idade adulta ele descobre quem realmente é, indo para a cidade de Metrópolis em busca de emprego, e de um lugar no mundo onde colocar em uso os seus poderes incríveis.
O escritor Edgar Alan Poe (John Cusack) está na caça de um assassino serial que imita os crimes de seus contos e ainda sequestrou sua noiva Emily (Alice Eve). Para ajudá-lo na investigação, o detetive Emmet assume o caso e pretende dar um fim aos terríveis assassinatos, que são seguidos de charadas criadas pelo criminoso que desafia a inteligência do autor num jogo de gato e rato.
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
In the midst of a publishing revolution, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one of America's most storied institutions of journalism, is experimenting with new tools to tell stories in preparation for the end of print in the digital era.
A Florida newspaper owner's daughter gets involved with her father's archrival who uses this to bring down his business.
The last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper production process from hot-metal typesetting to creating stereo moulds to high-speed press operation.