222 Movies about Journalism

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2025

News Without A Newsroom - A documentary about journalism's uncertain future in the digital age.

Opus - Satire about the relationship between celebrity worship and journalism.

Words of War - Based on a true story of a journalist's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia.

2024

Black Box Diaries - A Japanese journalist investigates her own rape leading to accusations against a prominent TV executive, triggering Japan’s #MeToo movement. Personal and compelling.

Civil War - In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.

Impulse - A journalist uncovers a cult and shadow government. Low production, poor acting, and not much in the way of journalism.

Lee - (Kate Winslet) A fashion model becomes an acclaimed war correspondent during World War II. Based on a true story. Conventional and melodramatic but well-acted.

Monolith - A disgraced Australian journalist starts a podcast and follows a conspiracy theory that leads to herself. A slow-burn sci-fi flick set in one location.

No Other Land - This film was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective and shows the relationship that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.

Players - A group of single Brooklyn reporters spend their evenings scheming for short-lived hookups until one of them falls for one of his targets. Predictable.

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24 Free Online AI Classes of Note

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AI & Critical Thinking

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There’s a concern that generative AI “bypasses reflection and criticality." The conclusion is then that teaching, therefore, must remain the same, AI must be resisted, and critical thinking must take place in the same way it always has—as if there is something sacred about the particular process that teachers are familiar with and invested in continuing.  

Instead, assignments need to take into account the tools available to the student. With AI options, critical thinking shifts toward new places. Offloading part of the work to AI is fine — provided the mental engagement still takes place elsewhere. The problem is not including AI in the mix, but trying to force old pedagogical methods onto new paradigms. 

A couple of decades ago, some professors told students not to use the internet because doing so would cut out some of the critical thinking and learning process, gained from trudging to the library and looking things up in printed books. Having information at their fingertips was a learning shortcut. Actually, the real issues remained the same: learning what counted as reputable sources, making defendable claims, and expressing that information in a lucid and compelling way. 

Stephen Goforth

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by data leak with help from AI

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“An investigative journalist has infiltrated a white supremacist dating website. The researcher then created a website where 8,000 of the leaked profiles are on a map, exposing users from different regions of the world. She says, ‘Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website – maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination.’” She appeared before a German audience, dressed as the Pink Power Ranger, and systematically deleted the site. -more info: CyberNews & Metro UK

Ambiguity and Narrative

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The discomfort with ambiguity and arbitrariness is equally powerful, or more so, in our need for a rational understanding of our lives. We strive to fit the events of our lives into a coherent story that accounts for our circumstances, the things that follow us, and the choices we make. Each of us has a different narrative that has many threads woven into it from our shared culture and experience of being human, as well as many distinct threads that explain the singular events of one's personal past. All these experiences influence what comes to mind in a current situation and the narrative through which you make sense of it: why nobody in my family attended college until me. Why my father never made a fortune in business. Why I'd never want to work in a corporation, or, maybe, why I would never want to work for myself. We gravitate to the narratives that best explain our emotions. In this way, narrative and memory become one. The memories we organize meaningfully become those that are better remembered. Narrative provides not only meaning but also a mental framework for imbuing future experiences and information with meaning, in effort shaping new memories to fit our establish constructs of the world and ourselves. The narrative of memory becomes central to our intuitions regarding the judgments we make and the actions we take. Because memory is a shape-shifter, reconciling the competing demands of emotions, suggestions, and narrative, it serves you well to stay open to the fallibility of your certainties: even your most cherished memories may not represent events in the exact way they occurred.

Peter C. Brown and Henry L. Roediger III, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

She Wrapped Him Swaddling Clothes

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And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them (Luke 2:7 NIV)

“She wrapped him in cloths.” Literally, he was wrapped in strips of cloth to keep him warm. The old King James translation uses the memorable phrase “swaddling clothes.”   

Do you think he cried? When you think of the manger and the child, do you imagine him crying?   

Mary put diapers on God.

The mention of a manger is where we get the idea he was born in a stable. Often, stables were caves, with feeding troughs for animals … mangers.  It was probably dark and dirty. This is not the way the messiah was expected to appear. How often our expectations and God’s reality are not in sync. How often he appears in unexpected places. 

15 Surprising Things AI can do now

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What Deep Search & Deep Research Can & Can't Do

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Most current Academic Deep Search and Deep Research tools are workflow-based agents operating within predefined patterns—not flexible reasoning systems that analyze task structure and devise novel approaches. This doesn’t diminish their value. Academic Deep Search’s iterative retrieval with LLM-based relevance judgment is a genuine breakthrough. Deep Research’s ability to generate well-cited reports fills real needs. These tools ARE agents in the technical sense, and within their designed scope, they work impressively.  But marketing language suggesting flexible reasoning, autonomous problem-solving, and human-like research assistance probably overstates current capabilities and can lead to misunderstanding by users who take the term “agent” or “research assistant” at face value. - Aaron Tay