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- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
Summary In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles t...
Directed By: Andrew Rossi
Written By: Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi
- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
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6.8
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Summary In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles t...
Directed By: Andrew Rossi
Written By: Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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77% Positive
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24 Reviews
16% Mixed
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6% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
68
77% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
16% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
While the media desk isn't the whole of the New York Times, it does give Rossi a solid perch from which to survey the paper's recent and ongoing struggle for both relevancy and revenues.
The movie is slick and entertaining, but much of it is as superficial as a Twitter post.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.8
75% Positive
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8% Mixed
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17% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.8
75% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
8% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
17% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
We enjoyed this insight into print journalism although we though it did not go into great depth. We had seen David Carr on Real Time with Bill Maher the week before which made us interested in the film. The film did not not toot the NY Times horn to much excess and gave us some insight into how a paper operates in today's recessionary world. Beat going to see "Transformers".
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Excellent documentary about the attempts of the New York Times to keep its moral, professional, and financial balance in a time of declining ad revenue, the death of other big-city newspapers, alternative news presentation sources, reporter error(Judy Miller), journalistic fraud (Jayson Blair) and questionable partnerships (Wikileaks). On the whole, the documentary was credible and thought-provoking. It's true that David Carr, the featured NYT reporter, was a larger than life figure and that the rationale for using the Wikileaks material was a bit hard to accept, but there were many, many memorable moments: the look on an aggregator's face as Carr showed him what percentage of his "publication" would remain if his traditional media sources were removed; the confrontation between a new Tribune publisher and Tribune staff; the interaction among section editors as page one space was allocated. I am not a regular reader of the New York Times, but this documentary reminded me that there IS a critical mediating function to be carried out by high-quality investigative journalism. I hope the NYT finds it way and is still investigating and publishing--in some form--at the beginning of the 22nd century. Highly recommended.
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As eye-opening as this movie is, the real story is outside the Times building, in the browser windows and iPads of me and you and everyone we know.
Andrew Rossi's documentary allows The New York Times a kind of nail-biting self-portraiture as it peers off the precipice of (hopefully) a 2.0 rebirth.
With all the talk in Page One about the demise of print journalism and the rise of new media, this shiny spacious emporium seems like both a beacon and a staggering folly.
As an avid media watcher, I didn't come away from this with any new insights, but the movie is a pretty good snapshot of the daily newspaper business in transition and turmoil.
The movie's main theme, no surprise, is the struggle of The Times to survive in the age of the Internet. But it does little to illuminate that struggle, preferring instead a constant parade of people telling the camera how dreadful it would be if The Times did not survive. True, of course, but boring to the point of irritation after five or six repetitions.
A good, exciting movie which could have gone further. Not a hint about the alleged ideological bias which many believe is on display in the news section of the Gray Lady. It discussed Blair & Miller, but not quite enough about how the top level editors decide what makes A1. But I enjoyed it despite these issues.
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Production Company
Participant,
History Films
Release Date Jun 17, 2011
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline This year, the biggest story is their own.
Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Denver Film Critics Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
