Journalists have traditionally not been portrayed particularly accurately, or even kindly, in UK TV and film.

Reporters from the Walford Gazette who pop up in Eastenders are typically ghoulish and ruthless.

US portrayals of reporters tend to be more rounded, as with The Morning Show on Apple TV+, which delved behind the scenes of a Good Morning America style show. Although it focused on the #MeToo stories emerging from staff, it gave plenty of time to the thrill of the story and the competition between networks. Dashing the main characters from New York to cover the horrific Mandalay Bay Las Vegas shooting in 2017 and the Californian wildfires in 2019 were a personal highlight.