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“Breaking the Information” — the movie following the inception, launch, and fledgling triumphs and challenges of The nineteenth’s newsroom — is now accessible to stream.
The film is a time capsule that features the newsroom’s deliberations round and response to main information occasions crucial to The nineteenth’s evolution: the coronavirus pandemic, the killing of Breonna Taylor, the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It additionally paperwork The nineteenth’s inside struggles to overtake age-old trade precedents.
“This movie is such an sincere and heartfelt reflection of the early days of The nineteenth, and we’re grateful it’s going to be accessible for even wider viewing,” mentioned nineteenth CEO Emily Ramshaw.
The place and how one can watch
The movie can be streamed on the PBS Documentaries channel on Amazon Prime Video. It is going to even be accessible for a price on Apple TV/iTunes in addition to Comcast Xfinity.
“Breaking the Information” premiered on the TriBeCa Movie Pageant in June 2023, gained the 2023 David Carr Award for Fact in Filmmaking on the Montclair Movie Pageant, and was an official choice ultimately 12 months’s El Paso Movie Pageant, DC/DOX Movie Pageant and Middlebury New Filmmakers Pageant, amongst others. Its broadcast premiere was in February 2024 on PBS. The movie was directed and produced by Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston and Chelsea Hernandez, and produced by Diane Quon.
Bonus content material
For those who’re in search of extra in regards to the documentary, a panel dialogue with “Breaking the Information’” filmmakers and nineteenth employees — hosted by Libby Casey, senior information anchor at The Washington Publish — is accessible now on our YouTube channel. It’s also possible to learn a Reddit AMA with two of the filmmakers, who answered questions on what makes a great documentary and the work nonetheless left to be carried out.
