Lou, fired from his TV job, leaves Minneapolis and becomes city editor on the faltering Los Angeles Tribune.

A dead thief's brother orders hostage Rossi to rewrite a story about a shooting.

Lou's con-artist pal offers him an exclusive interview with a missing tycoon.

Lou competes with the editor of the paper's feature section over whose reporter is to cover an important murder story.

Billie probes anti-Semitic activities of an American fascist group.

Lou has trouble ending his relationship with a Tribune reporter's widow.