Over the years, Hollywood has churned out some pretty good movies involving the media. Here are our top 12... 
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Top 12 journalism-based films of Hollywood

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Ace in the Hole - Kirk Douglas plays an unscrupulous small-town reporter with an appetite for bad news. Knowing it will sell more than anything else, he finally gets a golden opportunity.
All the President's Men - The most authentic and engrossing film ever made about journalists, it is based on the reporting of the famous Watergate scandal by two relentless journalists.
Frost vs Nixon - An account of the famous interview of former U.S President Richard Nixon by popular television host David Frost.
Good Night, and Good Luck - this George Clooney directorial is set in the backdrop of McCarthyism, about journalist Edward Murrow's war against Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Network - Director Sidney Lumet's satirical take on the behind-the-scenes workings of network television packs a lot of punch. Paddy Chayefsky's potent script is relevant now more than ever.
Quiz Show -Directed by Robert Redford, this impeccably crafted film about two quiz prodigies is based on the famous 'Twenty One' quiz show scandals of the 1950s. Martin Scorsese has a guest appearance
Shattered Glass - A film about manufacturing fake news, it stars Hayden Christensen as a reporter who becomes popular on account of his fabricated stories and is then exposed by a rival journalist.
Spotlight - A team of journalists of the Boston Globe investigate the child sex abuse allegations against a group of Catholic priests in this superbly acted drama, which won 2 academy awards.
Sweet Smell of Success -Burt Lancaster plays a powerful, influential journalist capable of making/breaking careers, minds, and relationships and Tony Curtis as a press agent who gets in his bad books
The Post - Featuring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg's film deals with 'Pentagon Papers', the leaked documents concerning the involvement of the U.S government and military in Vietnam War
The Insider - A senior CBS journalist (Al Pacino) and a tobacco firm employee (Russell Crowe) take on corporate malfeasance in this film based on a Vanity Fair article by Bergman.
Zodiac - David Fincher's chilling account of the hunt for the infamous Zodiac killer involves the painstaking efforts of a journalist and a cartoonist working at the San Francisco Chronicle in the 70s

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