Films & Events

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?

Panel discussion following the screening featuring:

• Paul Osmundson, a Columbia native who has been a reporter and editor for more than 45 years at The Easley Progress, The Columbia Record, The Herald of Rock Hill and The State
• Eileen Waddell, a journalism professor at the University of South Carolina. She spent 27 years as a working journalist, the last 21 at The State newspaper in Columbia, where she was the longtime assistant managing editor.

2023. 99 min.