TBH, it looks to me in that last panel like she's *pleased* to see her story on the inside page - as though having seen the war story, she didn't expect her own reporting to merit page space at all, and in the face of WWII, to have gotten published anywhere in the paper was an unlooked-for bonus. Perhaps she's still focusing on herself more than the war, but as you say, she's a reporter; they must have had some awareness that war was looming, and familiarity breeds, if not contempt for something that big, still certainly nonchalance (Clark's thinking in terms of the job too, after all).