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Stop the presses! 10 best newspaper movies: Absence of Malice (1981) Sally Field is a Miami Standard reporter whose standards are called into question by Paul Newman. Sydney Pollack directs.

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Stop the presses! 10 best newspaper movies:

Absence of Malice (1981) Sally Field is a Miami Standard reporter whose standards are called into question by Paul Newman. Sydney Pollack directs.

All the President's Men (1976) Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and the Watergate scandal, oh my.

Citizenfour (2014) Oscar-winning doc details the Edward Snowden leaks, and the role the Guardian, the Washington Post, and Der Spiegel played in the NSA disclosures.

Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles' opus, inspired by newspaper king William Randolph Hearst.

Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) Humphrey Bogart as hard-boiled editor of the Day. The New York Daily News' old presses stood in for the fictional rag's.

Foreign Correspondent (1940) Hitchcock's brink-of-war spy thriller, with Joel McCrea as a crime reporter for the New York Globe reassigned to Europe - and rechristened "Huntley Haverstock" - to cover the Third Reich's rise.

The Front Page (1931) First iteration of the screwball comedy about a reporter (Pat O'Brien) and an editor (Adolphe Menjou) at odds over a big story.

His Girl Friday (1940) Second screen adaptation of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play, with Cary Grant as the editor and Rosalind Russell as his ex-wife and ace reporter. Howard Hawks orchestrates the comic mayhem.

The Paper (1994) Michael Keaton is the metro editor of the New York Sun, doing his dogged best in the face of newsroom cutbacks and impending fatherhood (Marisa Tomei, a staffer on leave, is his very pregnant wife).

Zodiac (2007) David Fincher's serial-killer thriller, with Jake Gyllenhaal as a San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist on the case, and Robert Downey Jr. as his newsroom colleague.