Reality Check

Showdown over the future of independent documentaries at PBS

Proposal to move POV and Independent Lens to secondary station puts PBS and WNET in a bind

February 26, 2015 By Chris Ip

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After the uproar

October 4, 2013 By Jina Moore

A photographer’s continued work on domestic violence

Pioneer and pariah

September 13, 2013 By Edirin Oputu

Brother Outsider offers a touching portrait of Bayard Rustin, an unsung hero of the civil rights movement

Beholding thinspiration

May 13, 2013 By Kira Goldenberg

Slate’s decision to publish an image of a recovering anorexic is problematic

Collecting Sandy’s stories, one by one

April 19, 2013 By Lauren Kirchner

Sandy Storyline is featured in this weekend’s Tribeca Film Festival

Translating public health into media

April 12, 2013 By Jina Moore

The Envision conference revealed an ongoing disconnect between policy wonks and storytellers

Documenting domestic violence

March 1, 2013 By Jina Moore

A Time photo slideshow obscures as much as it reveals

How we got our story

January 29, 2013 By Alissa Quart

The new Atavist feature, The Last Clinic, is a product of persevering and roughing it

Why do evangelicals talk to journalists?

January 24, 2013 By Abby Ohlheiser

They know they may be depicted unsympathetically, but any chance to spread the Word is worth taking

How to recount a plague

September 17, 2012 By Alissa Quart

A new documentary about AIDS is the best one in the past few years

Is Project Runway saving criticism?

August 27, 2012 By Alissa Quart

It may well be, Reality Check columnist Alissa Quart says

Collapsing the line between documentary and fiction

August 13, 2012 By Alissa Quart

A new film, The Ambassador, exhibits “performance journalism,” a combination of art and reporting

Viral before the Internet

July 30, 2012 By Alissa Quart

Things spread, but the content, often documentary, was darker and weirder

Vimeo: AuteurTube

July 16, 2012 By Alissa Quart

YouTube can make amateurs rich, but the video pros are congregating elsewhere

Push Girls transcends its genre

July 2, 2012 By Alissa Quart

Viewers might come for the drama, but they’ll stay for the realness that seeps through