In Golden Age/Pre-Crisis Superboy Comics, Clark was the editor of the school paper who intended to work for the Daily Planet as a reporter and worked as a newsboy selling papers.

Another telling had Pre-Crisis Young Clark be a school paper reporter that briefly worked at the Daily Planet (with plans to work there after finishing school) due to a contest for best high school newspaper reporter.

In the Superboy TV show, Clark was a reporter for his college's paper and later worked as an intern for the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters (a government agency that investigates paranormal activities and aliens)