Vermont International Film Festival Returns With a Focus on Journalism
by
Margot Harrison
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October 13, 2020 at 12:52PM
Similarly, the period drama Park Row (1952) and the documentary The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999) explore different ways of deciding what is "newsworthy." The documentary, which Yadin called "fascinating," is about the alternative newspapers that Black journalists founded in every major U.S. city, starting in the 19th century, to tell the stories that white-run media ignored.