Anne leaves the paper open to a libel suit by compromising a source's identity; Cassy competes for an exclusive; Miles is forced to alter his lifestyle, prompting rumors that he's broke. 

Dunne compromises journalistic ethics, as does a business reporter suspected of a conflict of interest; gossip king Plato contemplates a book deal. 

Conrad witnesses the mob killing of a drug dealer; Cassy gets the cold shoulder from Edison; Doreen begins a dangerous assignment.

Newspaper reporters in Washington D.C. will do almost anything to get the story they need to keep their jobs. Newspaper staffers, under editor "Jo-Jo" Turner, chronicle daily dramas in the Nation's Capital.