Television, with its relatively wide audience, has been our goal from the start, and it finally happened! Stop the Presses makes its TV premiere at 9 tonight, Oct. 26, on KERA-Channel 13 in Dallas, to be followed by airings around the country early next year.
Since the film first screened publicly at the AFI-Dallas festival in [...]

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On the panel after the Denver Newspaper Agency screening were (left to right) film critic and moderator Bob Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News finance editor David Milstead, Dow Jones business columnist Al Lewis and yours truly
We had great success at the Starz Denver Film Festival last month, in part because the print journalism situation in that [...]

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Me and the marquee at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
On the heels of our triumphant appearance in Hot Springs — more 200 people saw the film there — we’re off to Colorado this weekend for screenings at the Starz Denver Film Festival. This is looking like a real cool opportunity.
After the Sunday afternoon showing [...]

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We’re back where we started. Our second screening ever — 40 minutes of a work-in-progress — took place at last year’s Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Now we’re back at this year’s fest, already underway, with the completed Stop the Presses, which will have two showings at the Malco Theatre: 9:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 [...]

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Our first screening on the left coast is just a couple of weeks away: We’re an official selection of the Berkeley Video & Film Festival, screening at 6:40 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 27, at the Landmark Shattuck Cinemas. I’ll be there for a Q&A afterward, and I hear we’re getting an award the night before.
Manny [...]

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New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Chris Kirkham interviewed by producer-directors Mendoza and Birnbaum
Welcome to the newly relaunched website for Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril. We will not only promote the documentary film here but also keep you up with developments in the newspaper crisis. The links below also are a good place to [...]

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Following its spring premiere at AFI-Dallas, Stop the Presses is set to screen at a second major film festival.
Update: The Hot Springs screening is at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 24, followed by a Q&A.
Here’s the original press release:
DALLAS, Texas – The AMS Pictures documentary Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril has been selected for [...]

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We had a great week at the AFI-Dallas festival, where the film premiered and sold out two of its three screenings.
Critics called it “an absorbing account that should appeal to anyone concerned with the future of democracy” and “surprisingly inspiring, as it points to the inevitable reinvention of an industry in need of new life.”
Practically [...]

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First the slightly old news: We’ve wrestled this baby to the ground, and it’s going to premiere for the world on April 2 at the AFI-Dallas Int’l Film Festival. “Stop the Presses” is part of the festival’s “Target 10 Documentary Feature Competition,” with 25K going to the winner. (Keep your fingers crossed.) After the premiere [...]

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When is a film done shooting? Apparently never.

We were out just today chronicling the work of a Dallas Morning News reporter/videographer, Jake Batsell. And next week we travel to Philadelphia. We finally got an owner, Brian Tierney, to agree to go on camera and give us an important perspective: Why would anyone buy a newspaper [...]

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