# The best TV shows about journalism

Fictional newsrooms from Lou Grant to The Newsreader: the best series about journalists, from Press Gazette, AARP and Pix Media.

- 200 votes · 13 items
- Feb 8, 2023 · Kyle
- https://even.best/en/l/3742/the-best-tv-shows-about-journalism

## Top 13

1. **The Newsroom (2012-2014)** (24 · ▲25 ▼1) — Aaron Sorkin's cable news anchor Will McAvoy.
2. **The Hour (2011-2012)** (18 · ▲18 ▼0) — A 1950s BBC current-affairs show, with Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai.
3. **The Morning Show (2019-)** (17 · ▲19 ▼2) — Power and \#MeToo at a network morning show.
4. **The Newsreader (2021-)** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — An Australian newsroom in 1986.
5. **The Wire (2002-2008)** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — Its fifth season takes on the Baltimore Sun.
6. **Lou Grant (1977-1982)** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — Ed Asner at a Los Angeles newspaper.
7. **Press (2018)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Two rival London newspapers.
8. **The Bold Type (2017-2021)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Three friends at a New York women's magazine.
9. **NewsRadio (1995-1999)** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — A New York news radio station.
10. **Murphy Brown (1988-1998)** (5 · ▲10 ▼5) — Candice Bergen as a TV news anchor.
11. **State of Play (2003)** (4 · ▲10 ▼6) — A murder and a political cover-up investigated by reporters.
12. **Sports Night (1998-2000)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Sorkin's sports news show behind the scenes.
13. **The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)** (3 · ▲7 ▼4) — A Minneapolis TV newsroom and the template for workplace comedy.

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