November 20, 2008
Panel: Stop The Presses!
Manny Mendoza and Mark Birnbaum’s documentary Stop the Presses provides the springboard for this panel discussion about the fate of print journalism in deeply troubled economic times.
How can newspapers generate revenue as their readerships increasingly turn to the Internet for coverage? How long can organizations operating in the red continue to maintain large staffs of reporters? Are we close to the day when the presses stop for good? The answers to these urgent and challenging questions may determine not only the future of our media but the very stability of our democracy.
This panel, moderated by film critic Robert Denerstein, took place after a screening of Stop the Presses at the Denver Newspaper Agency. Joining Denerstein was Al Lewis, The Denver Post and Dow Jones Newswires; David Milstead, Rocky Mountain News; and Manny Mendoza.
“Stop The Presses! Film + Panel” was sponsored by PayReel.
Watch the Trailer:
December 5th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
[...] We had great success at the Starz Denver Film Festival last month, in part because the print journalism situation in that city is so precarious. Awareness is high, and worried reporters and editors turned out in force for our screening at the offices of the two daily papers, hosted by the Denver Press Club. It was followed by a lively and occasionally contentious panel discussion. [...]