Rick Goldsmith’s invigorating doc delves into American journalism on the brink    

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rick Goldsmith’s “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” screens on Tuesday evening at Oakland’s New Parkway Theatre, ironically, a few blocks from the once-bustling Oakland Tribune building, where a team of well-respected journalists worked. Shuttered since 2016, the newspaper, like so many others, is long gone. 

The demise of the Trib, as it affectionately was called, is part of a broader newspaper story and problem that are the subject of “Stripped of Parts,” which chronicles how the New York-based hedge fund company Alden Global Capital has engaged in a newspaper shopping spree at the expense of local, community-based journalism.