The Daily Herald
The Daily Herald was founded in the 1980s during the reign of corrupt Mayor Franklin Moore. It's owner, Lester Loeb was a smarmy and twisted little man that was little more than a shill for criminal kingpin August Roman's attempt to smear all the superheroes of the city. Lester Loeb committed suicide when Franklin Moore was revealed to be on the take from a dozen criminal organizations and his reputation as an investigative journalist was ruined. His widow, ex-Centurion girlfriend Lana Loeb, took over the newspaper and sold controlling interest to Rupert Murdoch's media Empire.
The Daily Herald, as befitting a subsidiary of Fox News, is the most conservative paper in Freedom City. It takes a remarkably hard line stance against the treatment of criminals, vigilantism, and anything remotely resembling a progressive liberal cause. If anything ever happened like Marvel's Civil War in Freedom City then it would be the Daily Herald cheering on Tony Stark the entire time. The Daily Herald isn't evil per say, it's just biased and opinionated with a suspicion of anything that reeks of altruism for its own sake.
Ironically, Fox doesn't have controlling interest in the companies that own the Daily Herald. It just owns a lot of stock in them. The majority are owned by front men for August Roman who continues to poke holes in Freedom City's most heroic classes.
Lana Loeb
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In the 1980s, Lana Lane was briefly able to attract the attention of the Centurion after his wife died of natural causes. Lana Lane was a rural city girl and thus able to remind the Centurion of his roots. Unfortunately, he was killed during the Terminus Invasion and never was able to choose between her and another reporter. The experience embittered Lana and her failed marriage to Lester Loeb only made her come to despise the superheroes whom couldn't measure up to her lover. Now in her mid-fifties, Lana has become a lot more reactionary than she ever intended to be in trying to bring back "decency" to Freeport.
She's a Baptist.
Frankie Jones
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Frankie Jones is a hard-beaten and weathered down Investigative Journalist that has a picture in the dictionary of his face next to the word "Cynicism." Frankie was born in the Fens and has been an investigative reporter since the days of Franklin Moore. He hates superheroes (calling them "capes"), hates the police, and generally believes that Freedom City is closer to Basin City ("Sin City") than it is to Metropolis.
Surprisingly, Frankie is actually a very good investigator and honest about what he reports. He may slur the superheroes of Freeport with every conceivable bit of harsh language you can find but the man never actually reports the facts wrong. Likewise, he's genuinely interested in bringing down the big criminal kingpins of Freeport and has been tortured at least once by the Labyrinth (to no avail).
Unfortunately, Frank is about the ONLY reporter at the Daily Herald who feels the need to be so forward.
Jennifer Locksley
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A former Miss America contestant and the weather girl at WCZA Channel 7, she's been asked to become the crime reporter by the networks. Hardly a bimbo, Jennifer genuinely wants to be taken seriously as a reporter but mostly has ended up being nothing more than a pretty face on the news. Her bright and optimistic personality is slowly being worn down by the relentless smoke-filled halls of cynicism that are the Daily Herald (which is where she gets her news bulletines from in blatant immitation of Amy Feng)
Jennifer has a secret and that she's actually a former FIT computers student who was probably on her way to a good career at Whiz Labs but was wrongly expelled for cheating.
