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 at the Magnolia Theatre in West Village, we’re screening twice more, April 3 and 5 at the Angelika. These developments make us very happy and you can help keep it that way by buying your tickets. click here.

There’s a lot of activity around the film right now. We’re submitting to other festivals, we’re under consideration for a slot on a PBS documentary series to be named later, a foundation is threatening to give us an underwriting grant, and we’re working on a cartoon with Element X Creative — to be inserted as soon as we’re done with it (accounting for the asterisk in the headline) — depicting the American Newspaper as a damsel in distress from Wall Street and the Internet.

A week after AFI ends, on April 12, we’ll be the featured guests on “The Uncle Barky Show” at Stratos Greek Taverna on Northwest Highway, hosted by former Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark, now proprietor of unclebarky.com, where his work on the beat continues unabated. We’ll screen clips and show a few juicy extras. Here’s Ed’s announcement of the event, click here .

For now, we’re in the midst of whipping up some local press in advance of AFI, so look for us in the Dallas media. Many, many people have made “Stop the Presses” possible, but I want to single out two: Mark Birnbaum, whose Herculean efforts are right up there on the screen, and Andy Streitfeld, who believed in the project and put his shop behind it. Without them, I wouldn’t have had this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I’ll leave you with the kick-ass trailer, edited by Brad Osborne (click here ).

Manny Mendoza