Independent Lens
Breaking The News
By Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston and Chelsea Hernandez
Season 25
Episode 11
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, the documentary BREAKING THE NEWS shows change doesn’t come easy.
