HBO has entered into a deal with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow to make a documentary about threats to journalists, the cable channel announced Wednesday.
“Farrow and team will investigate threats, intimidation and violence directed at journalists working to expose corruption and abuse by governments, corporations and other powerful interests,” HBO said in the announcement.
“Around the world, journalists are under fire,” Farrow said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “They’re being spied on using new surveillance technology, imprisoned, even murdered. And we’re seeing evolving tactics deployed against reporters in the United States, too, against the backdrop of a new era of misinformation campaigns and rhetoric that seeks to undermine the very idea of objective reporting. I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to work with Rachel, Heidi and HBO to tell these stories.”
Academy Award-nominated directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady of Loki Films will collaborate with Farrow on the project.
“Reporters covering this upcoming political cycle will be working in a vitriolic, deeply divided country – and our cameras will bear witness to this make or break moment for America’s dedication to a free press,” Grady added.