A promising young writer finds her perfect story in a guy who struggles to find some sense in his own life, she will have to decide who gets the happy ending: her career or herself.

When an ambitious young journalist is tasked to investigate a reluctant hero, she discovers secrets that could destroy his new fame. Having fallen in love with him, she struggles between saving her career and destroy him, or losing her dream job and keeping him.

>>She doesn't really have a flaw...

If she's human, then by definition, she is flawed.

A protagonist encumbered with a character flaw is well-nigh a requirement in modern dramaturgy. If there is no flaw, then there is no base line for a meaningful and interesting character arc.

In modern dramatic theory, character flaws are supposed to enable the audience to identify and sympathize with the protagonist. The idea being: how can real people, riddled with flaws, identify with a fictional character who doesn't really have a flaw?

Just saying.

"A budding journalist intern finds her breakout story in a lonely yet compassionate waiter but when she develops real feelings for him, she'll have to choose between the story of a lifetime or their budding romance.? I thought of this earlier.
She doesn't really have a flaw, she's just human. She can't have both and must decide.

So what is her character flaw?

No, he knows about the article! They met rather coincidentally and she follows him for a while trying to convince him to help her. He eventually say yes. Of course he struggled because he didn't want to make his life problems public and when he enters this school he asks her to change the name in the story. That's a drama that "easily" is resolved, the bigger problem comes when the co-worker blackmails her.

>>not a dirty secret that he has, it's about his depression and suicide attempts,

Okay, but they are still private details that most people so afflicted would never, NEVER want made public. That she would even consider making them public without his full knowledge and consent is not just an act of rank opportunism and exploitation for the sake of her own career aspirations, but also symptomatic of a profound failure of understanding and compassion-- a serious character flaw. (And therein is a story, perhaps different from the one you originally intended to tell.)