Stripped for Parts heads to NYC!

Attention Big Apple friends and supporters of local journalism! Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is coming to New York City, at the gorgeous Firehouse Theater: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film (87 Lafayette in lower Manhattan), on Tuesday, March 26 at 7pm.

We are expecting this screening will sell out quickly, so we strongly encourage you to get your tickets now!  If the first screening sells out early, there will be a second screening March 27, 5:30pm. Let’s fill the house for two nights!

Director Rick Goldsmith will be there for a Q&A after the film with special host Steve Waldman of Rebuild Local News at the March 26 screening. 

Can’t make a New York screening? Check out our booked screenings below! 

About the Film

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is the story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. Investigative reporter Julie Reynolds, Denver Post editorialist Chuck Plunkett and a handful of others, backed by the NewsGuild union, go toe-to-toe with the faceless Alden Global Capital in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism across America. Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service and the lifeblood of our democracy?

Special Thanks to Our Funders

Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Present Progressive Fund
Nancy and Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation
Nancy Blachman
Rogovy Foundation
Berkeley Film Foundation
Rick and Roberta Cummings
 Hannah Kranzberg
Sheena and Vijay Vaidyanathan Fund
The Bill and Ruth Harnisch Foundation
Economic Reporting Hardship Project
Fleishhacker Foundation
And more than 150 generous souls…

Donate to Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads.

We also accept check donations, which should be made out to Kovno Communications and mailed to:

Kovno Communications
2600 10th Street, Suite 403A
Berkeley, CA 94710

Kovno Communications, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.

Book a Screening

Stripped for Parts is currently on tour! If you’d like to check out the film join us on one of our upcoming screening dates:

March 29, The Bioneer’s Conference, Berkeley, CA
 April 6, St. Johns, Virgin Islands
April 16, Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Festival, MN
April 27, Monterey Reel Film Festival, CA
May 2, Kiggins Theater, Vancouver, WA 

Our screenings include a Q&A component that allows the audience to directly engage with the film’s director: Rick Goldsmith. If you’d like to book a screening reach out to Rick Goldsmith at rgoldfilm@gmail.com

Awards

Big news! We are delighted to share that Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink not only made its West Coast premiere at the United Nations Association Film Festival, it was selected for the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary! The film screened before an enthusiastic audience in Palo Alto, with several team members and two of the film’s participants in attendance as well. A true honor to receive the award for Best Documentary, it was equally uplifting to see the film already stoking dialogue and debate around the issue of private equity’s impacts on fundamental institutions like journalism.