Below the Fold (2007)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Mexican American journalists at the Los Angeles Times who created a newspaper series to counter negative portrayals of Latinos. The series won a Pulitzer Prize and the film shows how they worked on it.

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What happens

Below the Fold: The Pulitzer That Defined Latino Journalism is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Roberto Gudiño to chronicle the story of the Mexican American journalists of the Los Angeles Times who responded to negative portrayals of Latinos in the newspaper by publishing the newspaper series "Latinos". The newspaper received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series. Filmed on locations in Arizona, California and New York, the project debuted at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in October 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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