Join Us: Documentary screening and conversation with The Record on Oct. 6

The Record North Shore is asking you to join us next week for a special screening of the documentary “Stripped For Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.”

The Record, with support from the League of Women Voters, is bringing the film to The Wayfarer Theaters, 1850 2nd St. in Highland Park, on Monday, Oct. 6, with a community conversation on the present and future of local news to follow.

Click here to secure your spot for this special event.

“Local journalism is in crisis, but nonprofit newsrooms in communities like ours offer hope,” said Ryan Osborn, The Record’s director of development. “This film captures both — and it’s time well spent.”

“Stripped For Parts” tells the story of how a financial strategy called “distressed asset investing,” or vulture investing, has decimated newsrooms nationwide. It focuses on the news landscape in Baltimore and the tactics of Alden Global Capital, which owned the Baltimore Sun and now owns the Chicago Tribune, as well as plenty of other titles.

The Record believes that responsible and independent local news is vital to a community’s wellbeing and regularly producing that news is a public service. The Record’s reporting is free for all to read and is powered by the support of readers like you.

Events like this movie screening allow The Record to build up its mission of developing a sustainable newsroom for and with the community.

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