The Newsreader

The News At Six, and indeed the country, is rocked by a shocking, unprecedented event— a mass shooting in Clifton Hill. A huge and consequential story, it activates everything that compels Helen about the job. She wants to be first to cover the event from every angle— the details, the time line, the gun-rights debate, the motivations of the shooter. But when she races to air with confronting early footage of the aftermath, the News At Six is seen as exploiting the tragedy.