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Breaking The News

Season 25 Episode 11 | 1hr 24m 13s

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.

Aired: 02/18/24 | Expires: 05/19/24
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