Page One: Inside the New York Times

Page One: Inside the New York Times

By Andrew Rossi

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2011-09-29
  • Advisory Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1h 31min
  • Director: Andrew Rossi
  • Production Company: Participant
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. It gives us an up-close look at the vibrant cross-cubicle debates and collaborations, tenacious jockeying for on-the-record quotes, and skillful page-one pitching that produce the “daily miracle” of a great news organization. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of journalists continuing to produce extraordinary work under increasingly difficult circumstances. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting that helps to define our society?

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  • Empty Homage

    1
    By big lens
    This documentary is little more than a prayer for the dying. Just as the printing press revolutionized book publishing the internet will revolutionize the news business. This documentary does little to convey just where The New York Times will fit into this new paradigm if at all.

  • worth a watch

    4
    By JustMeAlex
    Pretty interesting to see the new era of media moving in and the old out. However, it's not without a fight. Carr points out some very hard facts about new media journalists.

  • Worth while if you like reading the Times

    3
    By arcticcircle
    The film offers an interesting looking to the world of the New York Times struggling to deal with a changing new media world. It appears that the film maker attempted to first make a film about David Carr, the reformed crack cocaine/single parent on welfare/now a writer for the New York Times but opened the perspective to the Media Desk. Carr's arrogance, foul language and hoarse smokers voice is a real turnoff despite his impressive diction and writing skills. Oddly as the film is lamenting the near death of Times, tearful staff layoffs, the film never asks why does the Wall Street Journal continue to gain in circulation and web viewers.

  • boring from the opening credit...

    1
    By MediaShark
    This is what journalism has become? Much better docs on iTunes.

  • Good

    4
    By bryndís
    The documentary is a fair overview on this remarkable Newspaper. It is gives you the sense of the importance of the work that investigative journalism is. The only thing that bothered me was the fact that so few women were interviewed and from that apperace it looked as very few women work at the Times?

  • Wow! Surprisingly good. Most compulsively watchable documentary.

    5
    By benoibe
    What a knock out! A must see. Grabs your attention from the beginning. Outstanding. It's a film with very real implications and relevant questions for our time. But it is also put forth as a very interesting story with wonderful, truly likable people. Even the ones I didnt Iike were fascinating. So much better than anything I've seen lately in documentaries. So different from what I expected. You will not be sorry whether you buy or rent this! (btw I am 30 and I don't read newspapers. This is something younger people should see. I and many younger people i know or follow in blogs take the availability of news for granted. We seem to believe we are entitled to free news, free music, etc. There are consequences. We pay for what we get.)

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