American Journalism on the Brink
Category: Press Coverage
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The Daily Californian — Documentary ‘Stripped for Parts’: an ode to journalism and a call to action
On the night of March 13, community members streamed into the Hillside Club in North Berkeley and, across the Bay, into the Roxie Theater in San Francisco to watch Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Bay Area local Rick Goldsmith’s newest documentary, “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.” A fresh perspective on the newspaper industry’s past,…
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Your Call, KALW — Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
On the this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink, a documentary that tells the story of Alden Global Capitol, a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of US newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back.
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San Francisco Public Press — Journalists Are Fighting Back Against Investors Dismantling Newspapers Around the Country
“It wasn’t just oh the internet is taking readers away and maybe the advertising dollars are different, no, it’s corporate greed that is wrecking journalism in city after city,” says Director Rick Goldsmith in his conversation with San Francisco Public Press ahead of their fundraising screening March 13th, 2025.
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Local 22 & Local 44 — At The Box Office: ‘Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink’
This week on ‘At the Box Office’, film critic Julia Swift discussed ‘Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.’
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KKFI Radio — Vulture capitalists destroying newspapers
Director Rick Goldsmith discussed how Alden Global Capital purchased newspapers across the country, laid off journalists and shut down local outlets with host Spencer Graves.
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Ojai Valley News — OPINION | Independent newspapers — latest endangered species?
David Berger’s handsomely reincarnated Ojai Playhouse was ground zero for the Jan. 18 sold-out kickoff fundraising event of the Ojai Valley News Foundation, led by its executive director, Laura Rearwin Ward, whose mission is to protect and foster the health of independent newspapers in Ventura County and throughout California.
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Ojai Valley News — California journalists buck trend and revitalize local journalism
The Ojai Valley News Foundation hosted a screening of “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” on Jan. 18 at the Ojai Playhouse, but judging from the energy of the audience, and from California newspaper leaders who spoke after the film, journalism is anything but on the brink.
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Ojai Valley News — ‘Stripped for Parts’ film exposes corporate threat to local news
Jan. 18 fundraiser screening at Ojai Playhouse to benefit Ojai Valley News Foundation. The day is special for me because it is also the first gathering of members of the California Independent News Alliance — a new group dedicated to promoting small independent news outlets throughout the state.
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48hills — Screen Grabs: Our Favorite Movies of 2024
Stripped for Parts was named as one of the top 20 films of 2024!
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48hills — Screen Grabs: Stripped for Part Review
Rick Goldsmith’s Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink offers a sobering overview of how “vulture capitalism” has reduced US news media—which had already been embattled by the internet and other factors for years—to a rapidly-shrinking, monopolistic shell of itself.
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