Daily Planet

The Daily Planet is a newspaper publisher located in Metropolis. It is considered to be CatCo Worldwide Media's biggest competitor.^[1]

History

Cat Grant worked at the Daily Planet as editor-in-chief Perry White's personal assistant until she had the opportunity to write a piece for the gossip column of the paper. After working as a gossip columnist for sometime, Cat quit the Daily Planet to start her media conglomerate, CatCo Worldwide Media.^[2]

Since Superman emerged as a vigilante in Metropolis, the Daily Planet's popularity skyrocketed, with the superhero being featured on the cover of 54% of their stories. Photojournalist James Olsen took the 1st photo of Superman^[1] while reporter Lois Lane was the first to interview the superhero for the Daily Planet.^[3]

After the emergence of Supergirl in National City, numerous reporters, including those from the Daily Planet, were attempting to obtain an exclusive with her.^[2] However, Cat ultimately obtained the exclusive and "scooped" the Daily Planet with the revelation that Supergirl and Superman were cousins.^[4]

Siobhan Smythe planned to sell a video of Supergirl letting an alien criminal go free to Perry, and use the story to be hired by the Daily Planet as a reporter. However, once Cat learned of her betrayal, she later convinced Perry not to hire Siobhan.^[5]

On August 2, 2018, Brooke Pohl wrote an article for the Daily Planet on James' exposure as the vigilante "Gaurdian", as well as Supergirl's final defeat of Reign.^[6]

On August 9, 2018, Lois did a story for the Daily Planet on Supergirl protecting Earth while Superman was off-world.^[7]

Known employees

Current employees

Perry White (editor-in-chief)
Clark Kent (reporter)
Lois Lane (reporter)
Brooke Pohl (reporter)^[6]

Former employees

Cat Grant (assistant to Perry White, gossip columnist; quit)
James Olsen (photojournalist; left to work for CatCo)

Appearances

Supergirl

Season 1

"Pilot" (mentioned)
"Stronger Together" (mentioned)
"Fight or Flight" (mentioned)
"Strange Visitor From Another Planet" (mentioned)
"Truth, Justice and the American Way" (mentioned)
"Falling" (mentioned)

Season 2

"The Adventures of Supergirl"
"The Last Children of Krypton" (mentioned)
"Resist" (mentioned)

Season 3

"The Faithful" (mentioned)
"Not Kansas" (mentioned)

Season 4

"American Alien" (newspaper)
"Man of Steel" (newspaper; flashback)
"The House of L"

The Flash

Season 5

"Elseworlds, Part 1" (mentioned)

Comics

Adventures of Supergirl

"Attack Edge!" (mentioned)

Gallery

Behind the scenes

In the comics, the Daily Planet is the daily newspaper of Metropolis and the workplace of Superman in his civilian persona.

References

[Pilot-0] 1.0 ^1.1 "Pilot"

[Stronger_Together-1] 2.0 ^2.1 "Stronger Together"

[2] "The Adventures of Supergirl"

[3] "Fight or Flight"

[4] "Falling"

[Man_of_Steel-5] 6.0 ^6.1 "Man of Steel"

[6] "American Alien"

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