The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
May 22, 2019

Roz Payne, Activist and Founding Member of Newsreel Film Collective, Dies
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

And Roz Payne, a founding member and longtime archivist of the Newsreel
Film Collective, has passed away. Formed in 1967 by filmmakers,
photographers and media workers, Newsreel produced and screened films on
the Columbia University student strike, the Black Panthers and
anti-imperialism. Roz Payne wrote, "We decided to make films that would
show another side to the news. It was clear to us that the established
forms of media were not going to approach those subjects which threaten
their very existence. Our films tried to analyze, not just cover, the
realities that the media, as part of the system, always ignores."


.