The newsroom finally understood that the two had been quietly dating for a while. During that time, Annie would give her completed reports to Murdoch for help with revisions on their dates, with Murdoch silently wracking his brain to help her tweak the valueless words in the eyes of the editor-in-chief, into real headline news, all without altering the core message of the text. The result was that Annie continued to believe those awards were earned through her own capabilities.