Josh Davidsburg
@lot1films.com
Senior journalism lecturer at @merrillcollege and a documentary filmmaker. Current documentary is about the Baltimore Banner and journalism. First documentary, Queen of the Capital is on Tubi!
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Woke up super early for these! These are screengrabs of locator shots for my upcoming documentary about The #Baltimore Banner. A Banner Year is in post production right now. More updates soon! #documentary #filmmaking
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Woke up super early for these! These are screengrabs of locator shots for my upcoming documentary about The #Baltimore Banner. A Banner Year is in post production right now. More updates soon! #documentary #filmmaking
How streaming elevated (and ruined) documentaries. Fascinating read:
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How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis
Unpacking streaming's embrace and erosion of non-fiction storytelling.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How streaming elevated (and ruined) documentaries. Fascinating read:
open.substack.com/pub/statsign...
open.substack.com/pub/statsign...
🎥New Update on my new #documentary “A Banner Year🔥
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life.
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I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life.
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
A Thankful Update
And an Amazing Sound Bite from David Simon (Creator of HBO's The Wire)
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November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🎥New Update on my new #documentary “A Banner Year🔥
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life.
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life.
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
🎥New Update on my new #documentary🔥
A lot happened this year!
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
A lot happened this year!
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🎥New Update on my new #documentary🔥
A lot happened this year!
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
A lot happened this year!
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
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This evening, I stood with the hardworking New Yorkers of CWA District 1 and the NewsGuild of New York as they fight for fair treatment from Conde Nast.
I'll always support our unions and our workers.
I'll always support our unions and our workers.
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This evening, I stood with the hardworking New Yorkers of CWA District 1 and the NewsGuild of New York as they fight for fair treatment from Conde Nast.
I'll always support our unions and our workers.
I'll always support our unions and our workers.
More screenshots! I wanted to do this documentary to highlight the immense dedication journalists have in their quest for truth. From investigative teams to covering city elections, the public often doesn’t see the challenges journalists face just to hit publish.
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
More screenshots! I wanted to do this documentary to highlight the immense dedication journalists have in their quest for truth. From investigative teams to covering city elections, the public often doesn’t see the challenges journalists face just to hit publish.
🎥 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.
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🎥 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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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
🎥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
From the Preakness to the Key Bridge collapse. #journalism #filmmaking
October 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🎥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
From the Preakness to the Key Bridge collapse. #journalism #filmmaking
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
#Documentary #Journalism #WalterCronkite
October 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
#Documentary #Journalism #WalterCronkite
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."
October 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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."
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.
September 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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.
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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
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
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...
@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...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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
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
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
#documentary #documentaryfilmmaking #filmmaking
September 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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
#documentary #documentaryfilmmaking #filmmaking
Started post production on my #documentary this week! Read all about it. open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
September 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Started post production on my #documentary this week! Read all about it. open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
New update on my documentary A Banner Year! We officially started post production!
Read all about It! open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
Read all about It! open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
Starting the Edit
Big News about Post Production
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August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New update on my documentary A Banner Year! We officially started post production!
Read all about It! open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
Read all about It! open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
Sucked out by Super drag
August 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Sucked out by Super drag
I can’t help thinking of Bridesmaids when I see the #andjustlikethat thumbnail.
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I can’t help thinking of Bridesmaids when I see the #andjustlikethat thumbnail.
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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
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...
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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.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
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
July 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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
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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July 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I didn’t know I needed this reboot, but this looks amazing. And it’s @edgarwright.bsky.social youtu.be/KD18ddeFuyM?...
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…
June 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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The index card wall is up! Starting post on my documentary: Banner Year!
June 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The index card wall is up! Starting post on my documentary: Banner Year!
Support indie film! This film festival was amazing to Queen of the Capital
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June 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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