By Shauna Hyland
Over the years, cinema has seen many journalists as main characters, with a lot of them notably being women.
Following the release of ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’, News Just News takes a look at the many women in journalism we’ve had on the big screen.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Released in 2006, the film follows Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), an aspiring journalist who becomes the assistant to the renowned difficult fashion editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep).
Andy ends up working at Runway magazine, attempting to keep up with a realm she’s not at all familiar with.
Cinemas recently saw the release of the 2026 sequel, where Andy and Miranda have to help fight the declining readership in print journalism.
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Broadcast News (1987)
News producer Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) finds herself in a love-triangle between a news reporter and news anchor.
The news anchor, William Hurt, embodies a new strand of news reporting that Jane despises. Thus, she is faced with an internal morality crisis.
This multi-Oscar nominated film from 1987 follows Jane as one of the most dependable in the newsroom – empowering female journalists everywhere.
How to Lose a Guy In 10 days (2003)
This 2003 classic follows Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) and Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) who enter into a relationship where they both have ulterior motives.
Anderson is a columnist who writes for the women’s magazine Composure in New York.
She has an idea for a piece following her friend experiencing a breakup; she will begin dating a man and attempt to turn him away by using the supposed classic mistakes women make.
Advertising executive Barry has a different bet with his friends: he can make any woman fall in love with him within 10 days.
The two come head-to-head as their missions battle against each other.
Confessions of a shopaholic (2009)
The 2009 rom-com centres around Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) an aspiring fashion journalist, who lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City.
She battles a shopping addiction and tries to claw her way into fashion journalism – but accidentally finds herself successful in financial journalism as the ‘green scarf girl’.
She writes about her addiction and how it’s a bad financial decision we all get drawn into, and it makes her completely famous.
Alongside this, there is a very sweet romance between her and Hugh Dancy, another fellow journalist who is the one person who believes in her.
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
After wishing too hardly on her birthday, 13-year-old Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) ends up becoming her 30-year-old self.
She wakes up as a fashion editor, which 13-year-old Jenna dreamed of becoming.
Jenna wakes up to her seemingly-perfect life, except she realises that her best friend and many things she cherished are gone, meaning that she must not have appreciated them over the years.
Superman (2025)
Although many fans notice that Clark Kent (David Corenswet) is a journalist for The Daily Planet newspaper, so is Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan).
Lane takes on the investigative journalist role in this film, investigating what Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) is up to and whether it is criminal.
Billionaire Luthor does everything he can to stay undercover, but Lane is one step ahead of him the entire time.
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