What has happened to local news coverage? Where do we turn for reliable independent information? What can we do?
Join us for a screening of the Stripped for Parts Documentary and panel discussion.
All are welcome! Bring your ideas and questions.
Admission is a sliding scale of $0-10.
Additional donations are welcome to support the work of our co-sponsors. Please register to ensure we have seats and spaces for everyone.
5:30pm Doors Open
6pm Film Screening
Moderated panel discussion follows screening.
Confirmed panelists:
Thomas Peele, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
Michael Singer, Managing Editor of the Castro Valley Forum
And more to come!
Co-Sponsors: Northern California Public Media, Ovis Foundation, AAUW Hayward Castro Valley Branch, BWOPA Hayward South County Chapter, and League of Women Voters Eden Area
The Story
Stripped for Parts is the story of a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of America’s newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back.
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why– until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in 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, the lifeblood of our democracy?
Preview: https://vimeo.com/923029964?fl=pl&fe=sh