Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)

Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.

Director:

Andrew Rossi

Writers:

Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi

Stars:

David Carr, Sarah Ellison, Larry Ingrassia

3 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sarah Ellison	...	Herself
Larry Ingrassia	...	Himself
David Carr	...	Himself
Dennis Crowley	...	Himself
Bruce Headlam	...	Himself
Evan Williams	...	Himself
Richard Perez-Pena	...	Himself
Paul Steiger	...	Himself
Clay Shirky	...	Himself
Markos Moulitsas	...	Himself
Brian Stelter	...	Himself
Seth Mnookin	...	Himself
Alex S. Jones	...	Himself
Nicholas Lemann	...	Himself
Ian Fisher	...	Himself

Storyline

During the most tumultuous time for media in generations, filmmaker Andrew Rossi gains unprecedented access to the newsroom at The New York Times. For a year, he follows journalists on the paper's Media Desk, a department created to cover the transformation of the media industry. Through this prism, a complex view emerges of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity, especially at the Times itself.

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Plot Keywords:

new york times | journalist | tablet computer | news media | false news story | 

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Taglines:

This year, the biggest story is their own.

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Genres:

Documentary

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language including some sexual references

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 September 2011 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Untitled New York Times Project

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$28,911, 17 June 2011, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,067,028, 16 October 2011

Company Credits

Production Co:

Participant Media, History Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Shane Smith: I'm a regular guy and I go to these places and I go, "OK, everyone talked to me about cannibalism, right? Everyone talked about cannibalism." Now I'm getting a lot of shit for talking about cannibalism. Whatever. Everyone talked to me about cannibalism! That's fucking crazy! So the actual... our audience goes, 'That's fucking insane, like, that's nuts!' The New York Times, meanwhile, is writing about surfing, and I'm sitting there going like, 'You know what? I'm not going to talk about surfing,...
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Connections

Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #6.173 (2011)

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Soundtracks

Lost in Detroit
Written and performed by Rolfe Kent
From the motion picture Up in the Air (2009)
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

User Reviews

Re Paper thin insights, Weekend Australian Review Sept 24-25

In his review of the documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times (Paper thin insights, Weekend Australian Review Sept 24-25) Lynden Barber ascribes "pomposity" to the Time's "olde-timey font and (page) layout." I disagree- in its bid to be more appealing and easier to read, the layout and font chosen are tastefully attention-drawing and pleasing to look at. Indeed I consider the highly characteristic New York Times nameplate a historical objet d'art. Such strongly-felt reactions to the visual elements of typography used by the New York Times suggests that the typeface form of letters selected for headlines and article text as well as page layout are designed to evoke visceral responses in profoundly subliminal ways.

The impact of fonts and page layouts is not just an esoteric aside. The style used for letters, characters and text are designed to create a readable, coherent and visually satisfying whole that works without the reader being aware.Where spoken language relies on tone of voice or gesture to convey emotion, the visual form of the written word possesses mysterious connotative properties. Ultimately, a world without charismatically constructed letters, numerals and symbols leads to unengaging newspapers, whether online or in print.

Joseph Y Ting