Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
Privileging people over economics, Page One isn’t exactly revelatory.
Respectful.
Ironically, it lacks journalistic rigour but it's a fond, nostalgic look at the gilded history of the Grey Lady.
Thought-provoking.
If Rossi’s film was an article it could do with losing 500 words, but for anyone interested in the future of journalism this is enthralling, essential viewing.
This is a basically supportive film – perhaps conceived as a brainier version of The September Issue, about Vogue – but it's a bracing reminder that good writing and good journalism don't happen naturally; they have to be nurtured. "Analogue papers" (it's an expression I hadn't heard before) must find new ways to do that.
Timely and oddly inspiring.
A wandering, unfocused approximation of a story in motion.
Slapdash newspaper documentary.
How interesting this will be to British audiences is moot, but for anyone who cares about newspapers it offers a fascinating angle on an industry in transition.
It mostly reminds us how bad it would be if the under threat journal were to fold – and not just for mainstream media, but for all the new media that regularly feeds off the hard reporting the paper invests a lot of time, money and human expertise in acquiring.
Thoughtful.
Fair handed and wholesome.
Rossi deals a firm hand, but over played points and scattered comparisons make it tough to stick it through to the end. In a culture where information is perceived to be free, we may be closer to learning the cost of losing the New York Times.
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