EVENT: March 29th Zoom Screening of "Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On The Brink"

Join us to watch the film and stay for a discussion with Director Rick Goldsmith!

Please join us on Saturday, March 29 at 8PM ET for a group viewing via Zoom of the film Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.

This 88-minute documentary tells the story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. Investigative reporter Julie Reynolds, Denver Post editorialist Chuck Plunkett and a handful of others, backed by the NewsGuild union, go toe-to-toe with the faceless Alden Global Capital in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism across 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 and the lifeblood of our democracy? Watch the trailer HERE.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with two-time Academy Award nominated Producer/Director Rick Goldsmith and we will discuss empowering actions to fight back. This is a unique opportunity since the film is not available on any streaming platform. Register for the FREE and empowering event HERE.

Goldsmith set out to answer why profits could be made by “wrecking” journalism, rather than practicing it, and how money could be made from an industry seemingly in collapse. What most intrigued him, though, was the bravery of those working at the newspaper while in apparent open revolt against their own publisher.

“My goal in making this film was less to expose Alden Global Capital to the world and more to give the film’s audiences a feel for these men and women, who risked their reputations and/or their livelihoods, to save, re-invent, and rebuild journalism,” said Goldsmith. “Each of them believed in their own profession, as one that serves as the lifeblood of democracy.”

Here are just a couple of the film’s rave reviews…

“Stripped for Parts does exactly what a good socially conscious documentary should do – identifies an urgent problem, explains how we got here, why it matters, and, most important, considers what we should do about it.” —Victor Pickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania

“Stripped for Parts is like a creepy horror movie, where the villain is a hedge fund that [...] gobbles up newspaper after newspaper and proceeds to cannibalize them with gruesome efficiency. The plot twist is how those inside this particular house -- reporters and editors -- improbably band together to fight back.” —David Barstow, New York Times investigative reporter and 4-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Let’s do some “lights, camera, and ACTION!” See you on March 29.