
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarIf you're reading this article, chances are you have at least a passing interest in the role and value of newspapers. You like original reporting and writing enough to pay for it, online or on newsprint. And you'd probably enjoy Page One. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongPage One is entertaining enough, but for a film concerned with the value of news, it offers little that's actually new. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordIf Rossi's done nothing else, he's turned charismatic veteran journalist and memoirist David Carr into a breakout star. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirRossi's film makes a compelling case on behalf of the traditional values of journalism. |
| MovielineStephanie ZacharekWhile 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. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsMolly EichelIn times of stormy prognostications all around the news industry, "Page One" is a reminder of what a newspaper can do, and hopefully will continue doing in the future. |
| Time OutDave Calhoun'Page One: Inside the New York Times' is sanguine about change. It describes it, captures it, but doesn't lament it. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekBoth a fitting tribute to a great journalistic enterprise and a warning about what would be lost if it--and others like it--ceased to exist. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI enjoyed the film very much. It was a visceral pleasure to see a hard-boiled guy like David Carr at its center. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrAs 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. |