Page One: Inside the New York Times

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"Though I’m best known as a loudmouth sex columnist, the only reason I got into that line of work was my insane, abiding love of newspapers. The recent death of David Carr sent me back to this incredible snapshot of the New York Times at a critical point of transition. Carr strides through the film like a giant, working (and typing) amazingly hard while he and his fellow staffers try to figure out what it means to be the paper of record when the internet keeps inventing new forms of competition while eroding the financial rewards of the old way of doing business." – Dan Savage, Columnist and Host of Savage Lovecast

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Release Date:	Jan 15, 2011
Running Time:	91 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

synopsis

Through the years, the fly-on-the-wall documentary has taken us on the presidential campaign trail, into the foxholes of war and behind the curtain with performers. In the spirit of that tradition, PAGE ONE goes inside the newsroom at The New York Times during one of the most tumultuous eras for journalism since the printing press was invented to reveal a disarmingly candid portrait of the paper of record. Over the course of a year when WikiLeaks and Twitter emerged as household names and publications like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Washington Post either folded or significantly reduced their operations, director Andrew Rossi gains unprecedented access to the country's preeminent news factory. Can the foot soldiers of this bastion of old media keep up with the fire hose of information that is the world wide web?