identity of the comic book superhero Captain Marvel Ted Baxter, talking head from The Mary Tyler Moore Show Howard Beale, TV news anchor of the UBS Evening News, played by Peter Finch in the film Network D.X. Beaumont, magazine editor played by Raymond Bailey, on My Sister Eileen Paul Beltzer, magazine publisher played by James Philbrook, on CBS's The New Loretta Young Show Cy Bennett, editor of Today's World magazine, played by John Dehner on CBS's The Doris Day Show Maddy Bowen, reporter played by Jennifer Connelly in Blood Diamond Tom Bradford, editor and columnist of fictional Sacramento Register, modeled on novel by Tom Braden, played by Dick Van Patten on ABC's Eight Is Enough Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City TV series Kent Brockman from The Simpsons TV series Murphy Brown from the show of the same name, along with FYI staffers Jim Dial, Frank Fontana, Corky Sherwood, and Miles Silverberg Anson Bryson, Washington reporter, in William C. Heine's novel The Last Canadian (1974) Clint Buchanan from One Life to Live soap opera Walter Burns, reporter played by Cary Grant in His Girl Friday Michelle Capra, columnist from Northern Exposure Snapper Carr, television news reporter in comic books and animated series featuring the Justice League Tess Mercer, executive editor and managing director of The Daily Planet played by Cassidy Freeman on TV series Smallville Ben Caxton, an investigative journalist in Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land Miles Clarkson, music journalist from The Mephisto Waltz Harris Claibourne, editor of The Tombstone Epitaph, played by Richard Eastham on ABC series Tombstone Territory (1957–1960) Stephen Colbert, played by Stephen Colbert in The Colbert Report Emily Cowles, advice columnist, played by Ruth McDevitt on ABC's Kolchak: The Night Stalker Jefferson Crowley, newspaper editor played by Edmond O'Brien in "Gallegher" segments of NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Chloe Sullivan, former reporter for The Daily Planet, played by Allison Mack on TV series Smallville Pepper Dennis, in the show of the same name Bryan Denton, reporter for the New York Sun in Disney's musical Newsies Art Donovan, assistant city editor played by Jack Bannon, on Lou Grant Jefferson Drum, crusading frontier journalist played on the 1958 NBC series of the same name by Jeff Richards Brooke English, from All My Children soap opera George Faber, a Rome-based television journalist played by David Janssen in The Shoes of the Fisherman Vernon