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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · 6d

🎥 One of the most fascinating parts of filming A Banner Year was capturing the incredible skill of reporters as they navigated conversations with sources on and off the record. Watching journalists persuade their sources to share their stories was insightful.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 8d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · 13d

🎥I’m still amazed at the incredible access the journalists granted me for A Banner Year. 📰✨ This documentary will show how quintessential journalism comes together and emphasizes the critical importance of the truth.
From the Preakness to the Key Bridge collapse. #journalism #filmmaking

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · 16d

I found some pictures of my dad, Lou Davis, reporting, including one with Walter Cronkite and one me! 📸 This is why my new documentary, A Banner Year, means so much. This project is deeply personal. My dad passed away in 2016 but his legacy lives on! 🎥📽️

#Documentary #Journalism #WalterCronkite

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · 22d

From late nights crunching out a story after the Key Bridge Collapse, to braving Preakness, our cameras followed The Baltimore Banner reporters on the biggest stories of last year. 🎥 Here are a few more screenshots from our #documentary about #journalism in #Baltimore, "A Banner Year."

Reporter sitting at a table interviewing someone

Reporter interviewing someone with their phone

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Sep 22

In a week that has been a disaster for the #FirstAmendment, it's important to understand why it's so vital. My new #documentary in post production follows reporters at the Baltimore Banner. It is about how crucial and hard #journalism is. Here are a few screenshots.

Reporter holding her phone next to a car

A reporter holding an umbrella interviewing someone

A reporter interviewing Wes Moore. Both are sitting in chairs

A reporter kneeling down and interviewing a child.

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Sep 6

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with the words `` you know , for kids . ''

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with the words `` you know , for kids . ''

media.tenor.com

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Sep 6

three men in mariachi outfits stand in a line

ALT: three men in mariachi outfits stand in a line

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Reminder: @propublica.org is still tracking how immigration agents use force when they make arrests.

Do you have video or other documentation of forceful or violent arrests by immigration agents that we should review? Please reach out.

email: [email protected]
Signal: @nicolefoy.27

Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway

@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

projects.propublica.org

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Sep 2

A couple of screenshots from my documentary a Banner Year. We just started post production, thanks to the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund.

#documentary #documentaryfilmmaking #filmmaking

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Sep 1

Started post production on my #documentary this week! Read all about it. open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Aug 29

New update on my documentary A Banner Year! We officially started post production!
Read all about It! open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...

Starting the Edit

Big News about Post Production

open.substack.com

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Aug 19

Sucked out by Super drag

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Aug 14

I can’t help thinking of Bridesmaids when I see the #andjustlikethat thumbnail.

Scene from bridesmaids showing maya rudolf in the street

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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · Jul 14

Investigative reporting has never been more important and AI is not going to file the records request, make all the phone cakks and knock on the door

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jul 14

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work

AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

www.404media.co

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jul 9

Big, breaking news! A Banner Year, my new documentary about the Baltimore Banner, was accepted into the Saul Zaent Innovation Fund’s new pilot editor-in-residence program! We start full time in August! #documentary

Index cards that say summer 2023 and act 1

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jul 1

I didn’t know I needed this reboot, but this looks amazing. And it’s @edgarwright.bsky.social youtu.be/KD18ddeFuyM?...

The Running Man | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Edgar Wright, Glen Powell

YouTube video by Paramount Pictures

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 29

4/4…we might see what happened to newspapers in 2008 happen to local tv news. Hedge funds already see blood in the water.

Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 29

3/4… strong as recent as last year (www.axios.com/2024/10/29/p...) but if our next candidates learn and use Mamdami’s campaign techniques, local ad tv buying may not be necessary. Local tv revenues could drop. Local broadcasters need to figure out the evolution soon or…

Political ads boost local TV

Local broadcast is still the top place campaigns spend their ad dollars.

www.axios.com

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 29

2/4…local news humming, much like classified ads kept newspapers in business. Citizens United and the Electoral College keep that money flowing, and disperse it across tv markets (instead of concentrated in New York and LA). Political ads have been been…

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 29

1/4 🧵 – I think we’re seeing iceberg of local tv news with the New York City election. There’s been reporting that It was big ad spend vs social media video. Mamdani connected through vertical, personal TikToks and Reels while Cuomo’s coffers focused on tv ads. Political advertising keeps…

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 25

Support one of the coolest film festivals on the planet!

Not Film Fest
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nff...

Not Film Fest

The experiential film festival that Mashable called "The Sundance of Italy"

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 24

The index card wall is up! Starting post on my documentary: Banner Year!

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Josh Davidsburg @lot1films.com · Jun 17

Support indie film! This film festival was amazing to Queen of the Capital
Not Film Fest
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nff...

Not Film Fest

The experiential film festival that Mashable called "The Sundance of Italy"

www.kickstarter.com

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · Jun 9

JOURNALISTS IN LA or COVERING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT:

Press rights groups are trying to coordinate responses to unlawful attacks by federal officers against journalists during protests. If you can help ID individuals in charge of operations (incident commander, etc.) & contact info please LMK.

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