‘Dateline-Saigon’ NYC Premiere Inspires Reflection on Journalism and Democracy
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05 May ‘Dateline-Saigon’ NYC Premiere Inspires Reflection on Journalism and Democracy

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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 on Thursday night at New York City’s Cantor Film Center to present the documentary “Dateline-Saigon.” Thomas C. Herman’s film chronicles the groundbreaking reporting of five young reporters during the early years of the Vietnam War: The New York Times’s David Halberstam; The Associated Press’s Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and photojournalist Horst Faas; and United Press International’s Neil Sheehan.

For the New York City premiere of the film, which had previously only been viewed on the festival circuit as Herman searches for a distributor, the event convened journalists, critics and others for a discussion of its subjects’ pursuit of the truth and the lessons for today’s journalistic landscape.

You can watch the trailer for Dateline-Saigon here.

In a discussion moderated by ProPublica managing editor Robin Fields, Herman, Committee to Protect Journalists executive director Joel Simon, and NYU journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen expounded on these themes.

By Cynthia Gordy, ProPublica
Watch the video discussions at www.propublica.org

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