About the film

The film travels the country to sit down with more than 15 working and former journalists: reporters, anchors, news directors, and photojournalists from newsrooms large and small.They talk openly about what the job has become. Physical threats and arrests. Newsrooms gutted by corporate owners. Social media and AI flooding the public with content that looks like news but isn't. And through it all, they explain why they keep showing up.Roughly half of the journalists in the film are women, many of them in newsroom leadership. Together, they offer an honest look at a profession under pressure, and a reminder of what a community loses when no one is left to tell its story.Screenings, panels, and educational licensing begin in 2027.

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"The truth is behind a paywall and propaganda is free."

The Journalists

Featuring national and local journalists from across the country: reporters, anchors, photojournalists, and news directors, along with newsroom leaders, a press freedom advocate, and the leader of a national movement to put journalists back to work. Some are still in the newsroom. Some have walked away. All of them have something to say about what's happening to the news.

The podcast

Listen to the companion podcast.In an era when the truth is behind a paywall and propaganda is free, who's still telling the story?
This is the companion podcast to the documentary Journalism: The State of the Story in America. Each episode takes on one of the big forces reshaping newsrooms across the country, including artificial intelligence, social media, and corporate ownership, and looks at what they mean
for the people who rely on the news.Along the way, you'll hear from the reporters, anchors, and photojournalists featured
in the film, in their own words.

• PODCAST COMING IN 2027