The Record North Shore and its supporters together embraced the current state of local news last week during a screening of the documentary “Stripped For Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.”
The Record and the League of Women Voters united to bring the film to The Wilmette Theatre on Oct. 23 and follow it up with a micro panel on the present and future of local news.
“Stripped For Parts” tells the story of how a financial strategy called “distressed asset investing,” or vulture investing, has decimated newsrooms nationwide. It focuses on the news landscape in Baltimore and the tactics of Alden Global Capital, which owned the Baltimore Sun and now owns the Chicago Tribune, as well as plenty of other titles.
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STRIPPED FOR PARTS 