Joining filmmaker Rick Goldsmith for post-screening discussion will be independent journalist Todd Miller, co-founder of the Border Chronicle
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why– until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America. Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service, the lifeblood of our democracy?
»RICK GOLDSMITH BIO
Reviews
“Goldsmith is an amazing storyteller, able to take the important and little-understood topic about how US newspapers are being destroyed by corporate greed and explain it in a compelling way. Everyone in a community that is vulnerable to the loss of their journalistic “voice” needs to watch Stripped for Parts.”
—Mike Blinder
Publisher and editor, Editor & Publisher Magazine
“Absolutely essential viewing for anyone concerned about the future of local journalism and democracy. A fire is raging inside the theater of local media and democracy, and Goldsmith’s film is the alarm bell we had better heed.”
—Thomas N. Gardner, PhD
Professor of Communication, Westfield State University
“The public finally has a documentary that clearly shows what has happened, and is still happening to local news, while giving hope that the numerous nonprofit newsrooms starting up around the nation may restore some of what is being lost. This is a must-see film for anyone who cares about preserving and restoring journalism critical to our republic.”
—Brant Houston
Journalism Dept, College of Media, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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