Domhnall Gleeson learns Journalism 101 for his role in 'The Paper'

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Domhnall Gleeson stars as Ned Sampson, the executive editor of a struggling newspaper in the new Peacock series "The Paper."

Gleeson researched the role by visiting Ohio newspapers and shadowing journalists.

The show uses a mockumentary style similar to "The Office," which was also adapted by Greg Daniels.

Actor Domhnall Gleeson gets journalists.

He understands journalists and the ones still toiling away under the pressure of not just deadlines, but the fact that journalism as practiced prior to the millennium is slowly being strangled by a myriad of other media and economic pressures.

It’s a topic that drew him to the new Peacock series “The Paper” from Greg Daniels , who adapted the U.K. series “The Office” for American television.

The same documentary crew