Although “Dateline-Saigon” tells a seven-decade old story, the issue of journalistic transparency is as vital and urgent and dangerous as ever. “Dateline-Saigon” is rich in character and story. Read the review at cinesourcemagazine.com...
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The best of today’s reporters approach their jobs with a healthy skepticism because of the lessons of Vietnam and what they have learned from Sheehan, Halberstam, and other intrepid reporters of that earlier era. Read the opinion at www.bostonglobe.com...
On October 16, 2018, the Center for Media at Risk hosted a screening of Thomas D. Herman’s documentary film, Dateline-Saigon. The event was co-sponsored with the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Penn Cinema and Media Studies. Read the interview at www.ascmediarisk.org...
On-stage conversation featuring director Tom Herman and special guests Le Lieu Browne ( Malcolm Browne’s widow) and Thomas Vallely, (Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and Senior Advisor to Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War) following the screening of Dateline: Saigon. hosted by Jay Craven. Watch the video: youtube.com...
On-stage conversation featuring director Tom Herman and special guests Le Lieu Browne ( Malcolm Browne’s widow) and Thomas Vallely, (Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and Senior Advisor to Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War) following the screening of Dateline: Saigon. hosted by Jay Craven. Watch the video: youtube.com...
Tom Herman, Director of "Dateline-Saigon," a documentary film about five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists' groundbreaking reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War. Herman attended the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival last weekend. www.addisonindependent.com...
Five journalists unveil how they struggled to reveal the truth in response to the lies being told by the American Government. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Read the article at theberkshireedge.com...
What would Halberstam have done? It’s a question White House reporters would be wise to ask themselves today. The answer is simple in concept but hard in practice, and often dangerous: Speak truth to power. Read the article at poynter.org...
Tom Herman decided to explore that change of heart he and so many Americans had about Vietnam. So he embarked on a feature-length documentary film, 'Dateline-Saigon,' that took 12 years to complete. Listen to the interview and read more interview highlights at www.wbur.org...
Like an illumination round fired from an artillery shell, a new documentary film titled 'Dateline—Saigon' lights up the darkness over the current battle field for truth, where American journalism now finds itself in an intense firefight with the White House. Read the article here: thegroundtruthproject.org...
It’s a fascinating history lesson overall about those years of the war, but the struggle of the journalists. This is an essential film. Read the article at capecodtimes.com...
ProPublica and the Committee to Protect Journalists, along with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, teamed up to present the documentary “Dateline-Saigon.” Watch the video discussions at www.propublica.org...
When he died, exactly 10 years ago in a freak car accident, David Halberstam wasn’t remembered as just any other reporter. Read the article at washingtonpost.com...
...exploring its lessons on the importance of an independent press in preserving democracy, particularly in the face of government officials who seek to suppress information. With contemporary attacks on the press from the White House, and officials who embrace “alternative facts,” these lessons remain chillingly relevant and crucial today.
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When creating this film, I felt a responsibility to all five journalists to tell the story as truthfully as I could. These men risked their lives to report the facts so I do feel a responsibility to gather all of the evidence. Read the interview at salemfilmfest.com...
Cream City native Tom Herman's latest movie, Dateline-Saigon, is receiving rare reviews. Read the interview by Martin Hintz for Milwaukee's Lifestyle Magazine here: Milwaukee's Lifestyle Magazine...
Tom Herman, producer and director of Dateline-Saigon, speaks with Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan. Listen to the interview and read more interview highlights at www.wbur.org/hereandnow...
Maybe there’s hope for journalism yet. Thomas Herman’s new documentary, “Dateline-Saigon,”, takes a look at controversial, groundbreaking coverage of the first phase of the Vietnam War, from 1961 to 1964. Read the interview at www.bostonglobe.com...
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy hosted a screening of the film Dateline-Saigon, an account of the freedom of access journalists had during the Vietnam War and the conflicts that resulted. For more information: www.thecrimson.com...
Director Thomas Herman joins Doug Fabrizio to talk about the journalists who set the standard for front-line war reporting in his new film Dateline-Saigon. Listen to the interview at radiowest.kuer.org...