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In "Scoop" (opening July 28), Scarlett Johansson plays a naive journalism student who may have stumbled onto a Really Big Story. Herewith,

10 other media types memorialized in the movies:

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Orson Welles runs a newspaper in "Citizen Kane."
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A journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) uncovers a big story in "Scoop."
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1. "All the President's Men" (1976): See, there was this little thing called Watergate ... and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein look nothing like Redford and Hoffman, but it's a nice gesture.

2. "Citizen Kane" (1941): Wealthy Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) thought it might be fun to run a newspaper.

3. "The Front Page" (1974): Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are the editor/reporter "odd couple." The 1931 version is good, too.

4. "His Girl Friday" (1940): And this version, with the reporter played by Rosalind Russell and the editor by Cary Grant, is even better.

5. "Shattered Glass" (2003): Hayden Christensen stars in this true story based on the career of Stephen Glass, who thought making up stories was more fun than reporting them.

6. "Superman" (1978): Remember, the Man of Steel has a day job.

7. "Foreign Correspondent" (1940): Hitchcock puts young reporter Joel McCrea on the trail of Nazi spies, and Pearl Harbor is still a year away.

8. "The Paper" (1994): The all-star newsroom includes Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall and Randy Quaid.

9. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940): Jimmy Stewart won a supporting Oscar as the lanky reporter from Spy Magazine who falls for the woman (Katharine Hepburn) he's being paid to spy on.

10. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962): As Dutton Peabody, bombastic editor of the Shinbone Star, Edmond O'Brien utters the immortal words, "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!"

— Eleanor Ringel Gillespie and Bob Longino