Page One: Inside the New York Times

Page One Inside the New York Times is an American documentary film by Andrew Rossi, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media jointly acquired the U.S. distribution rights and released the film theatrically in Summer 2011. The film grossed over one million dollars at the US box office and has been nominated for two News amp Documentary Emmy Awards as well as a Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature.

With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source, and newspapers going bankrupt, ... Page One chronicles the media industrys transformation and assesses the high stakes for democracy ... The film deftly makes a beeline for the eye of the storm or, depending on how you look at it, the inner sanctum of the media, gaining unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom for a year. At the media desk, a dialectical playwithinaplay transpires as writers like salty David Carr track print journalisms metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent, publishing material from WikiLeaks and encouraging writers to connect more directly with their audience. Meanwhile, rigorous journalismincluding vibrant crosscubicle debate and collaboration, tenacious jockeying for onrecord quotes, and skillful pageone pitchingis alive and well. The resources, intellectual capital, stamina, and selfawareness mobilized when it counts attest there are no shortcuts when analyzing and reporting complex truths.The film was nominated for a 2011 Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary and has also been nominated for two News amp Documentary Emmy Awards. ........

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