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Breaking the News

Name: Breaking the News
Released: 2011

2011

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'Breaking the News' gets behind the scenes of news and current affairs reportage in Timor-Leste to challenge those who think a free press automatically comes with independence. Breaking the News gets behind the scenes of news and current affairs reportage in Timor-Leste to challenge those who think a free press automatically comes with independence. What happens to the local journalists when the foreign reporters return safely home after covering each crisis, their stories in the can? Jose Belo and Rosa Garcia are two local journalists enmeshed in the political turmoil of their country, who regularly put themselves and their families at risk, by reporting ongoing corruption and injustice. Breaking the News has unprecedented access to these journalists and footage of all the crucial developments in Timor-Leste's fragile recent history. We navigate through the 2006 ethnic violence, the international intervention, President Horta's shooting in 2008 and finally the controversial court findings into that apparently double assassination attempt. These conflicting narratives resembling a political thriller are just some of the epic challenges facing local journalists in Timor-Leste. Breaking the News sets out to highlight the ways politicians seek to 'break' the fact-finding function of news. Filmed over four years in Australia's most misunderstood neighbour, Breaking the News explores the high cost of being a truth-seeking journalist in an emerging nation.