Directed by Adam Chadwick Country United States Producer Nancy Wolfe Genre Documentary film | Produced by Nancy Wolfe Director Adam Chadwick Music director Ross Lipton Editor Yota Matsuo | |
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Fit to Print is an American documentary film on developments within newspaper journalism by Adam Chadwick, produced by Nancy Wolfe, which began production in 2009. Although scheduled to be completed in 2012, as of February 2016 the film has not been released.
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Synopsis
Fit to Print examines the on-going crisis within the U.S. newspaper industry and its impact on local investigative reporting. The film includes interviews from reporters, staff members, and media experts within several major U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
Through interviews with former executives at the leading newspaper companies, Fit to Print illustrates a change in business practices, beginning in the 1960s. Newspapers became less a public service then a business enterprise designed to please stockholders. Newspaper companies historically neglected investments in new technologies and expanded classified advertising online, despite direct proposals from major internet search engine companies and advertising entrepreneurs. They missed their opportunity to take advantage of these powerful new technologies, and as a result have cut their staffs to compensate for the monetary losses. Meanwhile, journalism evolves from print to digital, with online publications surging even as major newspapers struggle.
Fit to Print gives those laid-off staffers a voice in this film. Interviews include reporters, editors and photographers who are only a few of the over 15,000 newspaper layoffs since 2008. The film also provides interviews with newspaper publishers, including Al Neuharth of USA Today. In addition, the film follows several laid off-investigative reporters as they struggle to publicize important watchdog stories that have fallen by the wayside as their newspapers have closed. These stories are emblematic of the crisis that is currently facing the newspaper industry.
The crowdfunding website Passerby was used to obtain funds for post-production of the film. As of February 2016, Passerby no longer exists and funders have received no updates since funding was provided. The Fit to Print websites www.fittoprintfilm.com and www.fittoprint.com are defunct. The Twitter account @fittoprintfilm hasn't posted since April 2015 and hasn't posted information about the film since September 2014.
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