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News + Press

  • PBS NewsHour Judy Woodruff in Conversation with Heather Courtney & Laurie Ezzell Brown

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  • The Daily Yonder

    “Out ofPrint butNot Out of News: Canadian Records’ Impact Lives Online and In New Public TV Documentary”

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  • High Plains Public Radio

    Interview with Heather Courtney & Laurie Ezzell Brown

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  • For The Record wins Reel South Award at the New Orleans Film Festival, and gets broadcast/streaming deal on the PBS’ Reel South series!

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  • PBS NewsHour

    How the loss of local newspapers fueled political divisions in the U.S.

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  • Texas Standard

    Film captures the forces contributing to the closure of small-town paper, The Canadian Record

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  • Lights, Camera, Austin

    Interview: Heather Courtney, ​director, "For the Record

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  • Austin American Statesman

    'For the Record': See a film that documents the last days of one rural Texas newspaper

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  • Texas Tribune

    A storied Texas Panhandle newspaper halts publication after 130 years

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