From the front lines of the bankrupt Chicago Tribune, to the vibrant local online publishing and start-up scene, pioneering journalists struggle to reinvent a storied, yet troubled industry. "Mashed Media" visits bloggers, independent publishers, hacker journalists, and social media mavens working in the trenches of Chicago, providing a rare and intimate look at the future of journalism now.
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the dea...
As her 80th birthday is approaching, Vera Klement, an oil painter in Chicago, adamantly starts yet a...
A look at the work of a group of reporters and photographers from EFE, a Spanish news agency founded...
Ghyslain Raza, better known as the “Star Wars Kid,” breaks his silence to reflect on our hunger for ...
A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Th...
The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...
Through never-been-seen-before footage and fascinating interviews with key members of the 1985 Chica...
Summaries "The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago", Focuses on serial killer John W...
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the acc...
Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to ...
The 100 years of history of the Chosun Ilbo and the Dong-A Ilbo show that wrong press can be a socia...
Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his dri...
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to...
The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our ill...
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social jus...
Ken Bone became an overnight sensation after participating in a Clinton-Trump town hall in 2016, but...