When a black football star dies following a police car chase, crime reporter Britt Montero suspects a cover-up and is determined to find out. Her investigation takes her from the high-intensity of the newsroom to riding the dangerous and often violent midnight beat with the cops.
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core and revealed fault lines in a fractious newsroom that was already close to open revolt.
