Like many documentarians, Oren Rudavsky delved into his latest film project eager to 鈥済et under the surface鈥� of his subject鈥檚 public persona. And his soon-to-premiere documentary 鈥淛oseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People鈥� manages to do just that.
But Rudavsky鈥檚 primary reasons for making the film about the celebrated giant of American journalism and founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were political ones, he told St. Louis on the Air executive producer Alex Heuer during Monday鈥檚 show.
鈥淸Those reasons] became even more evident during the run-up to the 2016 election when immigration and issues about immigrants came to the fore,鈥� Rudavsky said, 鈥淸and] when the news media was being attacked and continues to be attacked. 鈥楩ake news鈥� was a term that Pulitzer [used] in an article he wrote in 1902.鈥�
Narrated by acclaimed actor Adam Driver, the film is , with an 8 p.m. broadcast on the Nine Network in St. Louis.
The name 鈥淧ulitzer鈥� continues to loom large in the journalism world and in St. Louis, though the Pulitzer family sold the Post-Dispatch in 2005.
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