Documentary News & Research

This is a list of documentary film news sources that I reference at least semi- regularly and research that's impacted my thinking.  It is exhausting to crawl all corners of the internet for information, so why not put it all in one place?

Podcasts

• Top Docs Mike Merrill and Ken Jacobson

• Doc Talk by Deadline and Nō Studios

• Rough Cut by the Video Consortium

• Pure Nonfiction by Thom Powers

Websites and Blogs

• Variety

• The Guardian

• Film Independent

Magazines

• Documentary Magazine by the International Documentary Association

• Rough Cut Magazine by the Video Consortium

• Filmmaker Magazine by the Gotham

Newsletters

• Media War & Peace by Evan Shapiro

• Doc Voices by Thom Powers

• Sub Genre by Brian Newman

Research

• Center for Media and Social Impact

• Shorenstein Center

• Documentality by Film in Mind

• The Independence Project from the DISCO Network

• Best Practices for Generative AI by the Archival Producers Alliance