Stop The Presses Trailer

STOP THE PRESSES: FILM DOCUMENTS END OF ‘LIFE, PRINTED DAILY’ AT THE TAMPA TRIBUNE TAMPA, Fla. (March 21, 2017) – The Tampa Tribune may be gone, but those who worked at Tampa’s hometown newspaper have not let the ink dry on the industry they love or the community it served. Stop the Presses, an 83-minute documentary chronicles the last press run and eventual demise of “Ma Trib” on May 3, 2016.
Filmmaker Deborah Kerr and her crew were filming a day in the life of a newspaper when the company unraveled and its owners sold the 121-year-old institution to a longtime local competitor, thus ending the bay area’s newspaper war and decades-long careers for hundreds of reporters, photographers, editors and pressmen.
In the film, viewers will hear from former employees in News, Advertising, Circulation, Packaging and the Press Room about the stark reality of what is happening in the newspaper industry, and its effect on the more than 600 employees whose lives were changed forever by the closing of this Tampa landmark and the readers left bereft of community news when The Tribune stopped hitting their driveway.
"This is an important story to be told -- especially since The Tribune didn't get to write its own obituary," said Kerr, the movie's director, producer and head of Be Brave Productions. "I want people to realize the impact of newspapers on our daily lives and to show the dedication and commitment of those who breathe life into newspapers 365 days a year. With charges of 'fake news' taking root, the light needs to shine on these dedicated people who brought readers stories from the world and their own back yards."