Page One: Inside the New York Times

Behind the scenes of the world’s most famous newspaper and how it’s coping with the new media industry.

"Not long ago, a headline in The Onion read, ‘Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date’. It’s not quite as bad as that, but the plight at which the satirical paper is poking fun is very real for newspapers across the western world, and it sits at the centre of the insightful Page One: Inside the New York Times. As the daily ‘fight to get on A1’, the hallowed front page, plays out, Andrew Rossi plants his camera for the most part at the Times’s media desk. It is a good place from which to watch and the industry as a whole, grapple with the twin demons of advertising decline and digital revolution – leaving, in the words of one editor, ‘a culture that is having what we do completely ripped open’." (Souce: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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