Sul pianeta Kripton é il 1948 quando il tribunale sta giudicando tre traditori. Il presidente del tribunale manda suo figlio Kal-El in salvo sulla terra, dove a causa della diversa atmosfera assume poteri straordinari. Viene adottato da una copia diventando così Clark Kent.

Nel 1849 Edgar Allan Poe vive a Baltimora in pessime condizioni economiche, elemosinando bevute nelle locande e qualche angolo nei giornali locali per pubblicare le sue poesie. Unica luce della sua esistenza è Emily, la giovane e ricca figlia di un militare in pensione, che lo scrittore è intenzionato a sposare contro il fermo volere del padre. Una notte, la polizia ritrova il cadavere di due donne, una madre e una figlia, in un appartamento chiuso dall'interno senza possibili vie di fuga. L'ispettore Emmett Fields riconosce nella scena dell'omicidio gli stessi dettagli narrati da Poe nel racconto I delitti della Rue Morgue e decide di coinvolgerlo nelle indagini. Lo scrittore diviene così suo malgrado l'unica persona in grado di interpretare gli indizi lasciati sul luogo dall'estimatore assassino.

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.

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.

Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.

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.

A Florida newspaper owner's daughter gets involved with her father's archrival who uses this to bring down his business.

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.

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.