Breaking the News | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A group of women and non-binary journalists, bucking the white male status quo, launch The 19th*—a digital news startu | dG1fOXkzajVjdm4zZlk

Transcript

00:00 [MUSIC]

00:02 My whole life, I wanted to do the stories that weren't being covered elsewhere.

00:07 Whose voice are we not including?

00:09 Who else can we bring into this conversation?

00:11 Black voters!

00:12 [CHEERS]

00:13 Black voters!

00:14 People on the margins, that's what I wanted to cover.

00:16 And they were not the stories that were being written.

00:19 What we're seeing is that the pandemic is absolutely political for women.

00:23 Women deserve a destination news platform that is just for them.

00:27 We're launching this week.

00:30 We've had so much interest in republishing already.

00:33 Like the universe is responding to this mission and vision people.

00:37 This can be the catalyst for reset for other news organizations.

00:41 It's going to change the game so much.

00:43 [MUSIC]

00:44 There were people on our team who were hurt.

00:47 We should cover LGBTQ issues, but no foresight about an actual trans person on staff.

00:53 We're doing too much.

00:54 It's like, how are we going to have an impact?

00:56 We're such a tiny team.

00:57 If we fall into the same patterns as other news organizations, are we really that different?

01:03 Erin Haynes, editor-at-large for The 19th.

01:06 Black Lives Matter is a story that Black journalists are also living through.

01:12 It is exhausting.

01:13 Robbie Wayne has got to go!

01:15 It's going to start the ticking clock of what this could do to Roe.

01:19 It was a pretty incredible article.

01:21 People need to be challenged to think about outside of their experiences.

01:26 We want this to be a real news operation and we're not.

01:28 It may be a turning point for our organization.

01:30 [MUSIC]