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 these days?

Otherwise, we’ve been busy editing since our last production trip and expect to be done around the end of the year. Last month, we also went to Arkansas to show a work-in-progress version at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, where “Stop the Presses” was well received. Mark teaches a filmmaking workshop there every year (I took it last year), and it’s an underappreciated festival. I saw about a dozen films that I really liked.

We’ve also had some recent press. Mark was quoted in the Morning News on Sunday in a story about the ramifications of producing a documentary about a moving target aka a current event that constantly forced you to play catch up. Tell me about it. Since we started shooting, Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal and the atmosphere of layoffs and other cutbacks has accelerated.

The media website, Fading to Black, also interviewed me recently. Look for all the stories about the film in the Press section, which I updated again today. And we are now listed at the IMDB movie website under our names and the name of the doc.

Manny Mendoza