Director: Matt Cohn, Jeffrey Blitz, Jennifer Celotta, Tazbah Chavez, Greg Daniels, Yana Gorskaya, Ken Kwapis, Paul Lieberstein, David Roge
Newsrooms rarely make for gentle workplace comedy, and The Paper leans into that tension from its opening episode, setting an ensemble cast inside an outlet that has just changed hands.
What is The Paper about?
The show follows the staff of the country's last independent newsroom after a construction magnate buys the outlet for reasons that have little to do with journalism. Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore anchor an ensemble that includes Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, and Tim Key, each navigating a workplace where editorial standards and a new owner's priorities rarely line up. Episodes rotate through directors including Greg Daniels, Ken Kwapis, and Jennifer Celotta, giving the series a varied rhythm from one week to the next while keeping the same core cast of reporters and editors at its center.
Cast & crew
Gleeson leads as a figure trying to hold the newsroom together, with Impacciatore providing much of the friction that keeps the group off balance. Edelman and Young bring sharper comic timing to smaller roles, while Frei, Gregg, Ikumelo, and Key round out a newsroom that feels populated rather than staged.
Context & significance
With a rotating directors' chair spanning names familiar from other workplace ensemble comedies, The Paper favors an episodic, character-driven rhythm over a single serialized arc. Its 2025 debut places it among a run of newsroom and media-set dramas exploring what happens when outside money takes over an institution built on independence.
Where & how to watch
K-Time streams The Paper with Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow every newsroom exchange in full. The page itself, including cast, crew, and episode details, is open to browse without logging in — only starting playback requires a free K-Time account.