How CW alum Melissa Benoist's Girls On The Bus reintroduces the journalism drama

Has Warner Bros Television and HBO Max drama series Girls On The Bus itched your nose to enroll in Journalism school or a workshop of some kind? The series is penned from Amy Chozick's experiences as a political reporter on the campaign bus with multiple presidential candidates about the representations of four female journalists.

 The show headlines CW television alum Supergirl/Kara Danvers herself, Melissa Benoist in the first episode as the starry eye print media journalist. Standing next to Benoist is Carla Gugino who filled the role of a psychiatrist in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch and is currently filling the part as a seasoned female reporter and mentor to Benoist’s character. Then you have up-and-newcomers Christina Elmore and Natasha Behnam. The show is created and executive produced by Chozick and Julie Plec alongside Rina Mimoun, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Marcos Siega, Jesse Peretz, and Benoist serves as producer.

 Whether you are a college undergraduate studying Journalism, a Contributor to an online news outlet, or a graduate student journalist writing for their school's publication, here is why and how Girls On The Bus reintroduces journalism drama:

 “The truth is whatever you want it to be.”

  The pilot throws a curve ball in our direction with Benoist's voiceover narration: “As any [political] journalists would tell you, the truth is whatever you want it to be.” Hinting what to expect from the episode and an almost similar pilot from another journalism drama series that premiered twelve years ago on HBO. YouTube video that our high school (or college instructor) showed us of Jeff Daniels playing a broadcast journalist and he is sitting on a panel next to two other journalists answering students’ questions. 

 It is a coincidence that Girls On The Bus mirrors the HBO 2012 journalism drama series, Newsroom but Girls On The Bus steers from a female representation in journalism, like how Benoist and Gugino are expressions of print/online journalists while Elmore presents the broadcast journalism side and Behman is an equivalent to the TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube journalists today.