Oana Martisca is a Romanian-born filmmaker who found herself most at home in the journalistic community in Miami. Martisca spent two years chronicling the current state of journalism. She interviewed dozens of renowned reporters and editors, including former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron. Her new documentary, "News Without a Newsroom," premiered at the Miami Film Festival and has won more than 10 awards around the world.

The film reveals how dwindling attention spans, changing media business models, and rapid technological change are recasting the future of news and democracy.

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In the film, the head of the American Journalism Project says the decline of local news happened over a generation, and it will take a generation to rebound. How will it regrow?

I don't have the solution. I don't think anybody does. I do think she's right. Although it looks like it happened overnight, this change took time. It’s going to take some time to repair it or relearn how to better deal with it. The [American Journalism Project] is part of the solution with nonprofit news. That may be one solution; I don't know if it's the ultimate one. We should experiment, just like poking an amoeba. I think we should try this, or we should try that. Let’s see what works.

What gives me hope is the fact that this new generation is able to adapt........

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